( 4* ) 



ORD. III. GEN. XI. DUCK. 



SPE. IX. SHOVELLER. 



PI. 253. 



Anas clypeata. Lin. Syft. I. p. aoo. 

 Le Souchet. Brif. Orn. VI. p. 329. 



This fpecies weighs about twenty-two ounces. The bill is three inches 

 long, nearly black, remarkably broad at the end, and ferrated on the edges : 

 eyes, yellow : head, and part of the neck, gloffy pale blue : breaft, and back, 

 white, with fhell-like markings of black on the back ; fhoulder of the wing, 

 lefs wing coverts, and part of the greater, blue: upper feathers of the greater 

 wing coverts, brown, tipped with white, fo as to form a white band on the 

 wing: quill feathers, black; fome of the middle ones edged with green: 

 belly, chocolate colour: thighs, black : vent, white, mottled with black: tail, 

 black, and pointed, with blue edges to the outer feathers : legs, dull orange. 



The upper and under parts of the female are brown, with a flight tint of 

 blue on the wing coverts. 



This bird vifits us in autumn. It feeds on flirimps, and other infefts, for 

 taking and retaining which the beak is particularly adapted. It is faid to 

 breed in France, and to lay ten or twelve reddifh-coloured eggs. 



