310 DUCK. 



74— SHOVELER DUCK. 



Anas clypeata, Ind. Orn. ii. 856. lire. i. 200. Fn. suec. No. 119 Gm.Lin.i. 518. 



//. Gott. 167. Scop. i. No. 70. Brim. No. 67, 68, 69. Mull. No. 117. AVam. 



342. 15. Frisch, t. 161, 162, 163. Bris. vi. 329. t. 32. f. 1.— male. Id. 8vo. ii. 



450. Georgi, 166. Borowsk. iii. p. 12. .Fre. iJe/w. Sepp, t. 130, 131. Jmer. 



Orn. viii. 65. pi. 67. f. 7. Tezn. Mare. d'Orre. 543. Id. Ed. 2d. p. 843. 

 Anas latirostra, Gerin. v. t. 572. — male. Id. 573. — female. Klein, Av. 134. Id. 



Stem. 31. t. 35. f. 1. a— c. 

 Anas platyrynchos, Rati, 144. 13. Will. 283. § xv. Id. 284. xvi. — female. 



altera, Raii, 143. A. 9. Will. 283.— male. 



Anas virescens, Mars. Dan. v. p. 120. t. 58. 



Die Loffelente, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 675. Naturf. xii. 135. Id. xxv. s. 12. Schr. d. 



Berl. Nat. iii. 373. 17. t. 7. f. 2.— the trachea. 

 Stockente, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. No. 92. 

 Souchet, Buf. ix. 191. PL enl. 971, 972. 

 Shoveler, Gen. Syn. vi. 509. Id. Sup. ii. 353. Br. Zool. ii. No. 280. Id.fol. 155. 



pL Q. 4. Id. 1812. ii. p. 264. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 485. Will. Engl. 370. 15.— 



male. Id. 371. 16. 17.— female. Albin, i. pi. 97, 98. Cat. Car. i. pi. 96.— fem. 



Hayes's Birds, pi. 27. — male. Lin. Trans, iv. 109. pi. xiii. f. 4, 5. — the trachea. 



Bewick, ii. pi. in p. 345. Lewin, vii. p. 19. pi. 252. Walcot, i. pi. 67. Pult. 



Dors. p. 21. Ost. Menag. t. p. 52. — male. Orn. Diet. Sf Snpp. 



LENGTH twenty-one inches, breadth thirty ; weight twenty- 

 two ounces. Bill almost three inches long, black, and remarkably 

 broad at the end, the edges much pectinated; irides line deep yellow; 

 head and neck glossy green, changing to violet; lower part of the 

 neck and breast white, marked with a few spots like crescents ; 

 scapulars white ; back brown ; belly chestnut ; vent black; the first 

 and second wing coverts pale blue, the greater brown, tipped with 

 white, forming a band on the wing; quills brown; some of the 

 middle ones edged with green, forming a spot of that colour ; tail 

 brown, of fourteen feathers, more or less edged with white, the 

 outer ones wholly white, the shape cuneiform ; legs orange red. 



The female is a trifle smaller, and differs in plumage ; the wing 

 is marked much the same, though less bright ; the rest of the 

 plumage greatly approaching to that of the Wild Duck ; for the first 



