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75- RED-BREASTED SHOVELER. 



Anas nibens, Ind. Om. ii. 857. Gm. Lin. i. 519. 

 Bal'bary Shoveler, Shaw's Trav. 254 ? 



Red-breasted Slioveler, Gen. Syn. vi. 512. Br. Zool. ii. No. 281. Id. 18L2. ii. 205. 

 Bewick, ii. p. 349. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



SIZE of the Common Duck. Bill large, serrated on the sides, 

 and brownish yellow ; throat and breast reddish brown ; back brown, 

 growing - paler on the sides; tips and pinions of the wings grey ; 

 quills brown, the rest greyish brown ; speculum of the wings purple, 

 edged with white; vent bright brown, spotted with darker; legs 

 short, feet small, reddish brown. In the female the colours are 

 more faint; speculum of the wings blue. 



This bird has sometimes been taken in the decoys of Lincolnshire. 

 Shaw mentions one by the name of Barbary Slioveler, much like 

 the above, if not the same; but in that bird the speculum was 

 composed of three colours — white, blue, and green. 



We learn from Colonel Montagu, that having had an opportunity 

 of dissecting a specimen of the Red-breasted Slioveler, he found the 

 trachea so exactly corresponding with that of the Common Slioveler, 

 as to leave no doubt of its belonging to that species, but in what 

 stage of life at present seems uncertain ; or whether the colour of 

 the breast differs at any particular season of the year, as in several 

 other birds. This was shot near Kingsbridge, in Devon, on the 

 5th of August.* 



76. -NEW-HOLLAND SHOVELER. 



Anas Rhynchotis, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. lxx. 

 New-Holland Shoveler, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 359. 



LENGTH eighteen or nineteen inches. Bill like that of the 

 Shoveler, and much pectinated; tongue pointed, with a membrane 



* See Om. Diet. One killed at Berwick, in 1810.— Wern. Trans, iii. d. 526. 

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