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The Shoveler. Anas clypeata Germanis Maf. Jy^u/^'- 



Numb. XCVII, and XCVIII. 



ITS Length from the Point of the Bill to the End of the Tail is one Foot 

 nine Inches and a half; Breadth two Foot eight Inches ; Weight two 

 Pound ; its Bill is three Inches long, coal black, much broader toward the 

 Tip than at theBafe, excavated like a Buckler, of a round Circumference; 

 at the End it hath a fmall crooked Hook or Nail ; each Mandible is pedti- 

 naced or toothed like a Comb, with Rays or thin Plates inferted mutually 

 one into another when the Mouth is fliut; the Tongue is flefhy, thick, 

 broad, efpecially toward the Tip ; but the Tip itfelf is thinner and femi- 

 circular; \\\Qlndes of the Eyes are of a deep yellow ; the Legs and Feet of a 

 Vermilion Colour, and the Claws black ; the hind Toe little, the Mem- 

 brane connefting the Toes ferrate about the Edges, and the Feet are lefs 

 thaii in others of the Duck kind. 



The Head and Neck are of a dark fhining green ; the under Side of the 

 Neck and Region of the Craw are white ; the upper Side and Shoulders 

 party-coloured of white and brown ; the reft of the Breaft and the w^hole 

 Belly to the Vent is red, and behind the Vent the Feathers under the 

 Tail are black j the Back is brown, with a light Dafli of fhining green, 

 blue or purple Colour ; the Feathers covering the Outiide of the Thighs 

 are adorned with tranfverfe dusky Lines, as in many others. 



The Number of quill Feathers in each Wing are twenty four, and the 

 ten or twelve outermoft are wholly brown, the next nine have their ou t- 

 er Edges of a deep fhining green ; the four next the Body are varied in the 

 middle, and about their Edges with white Lines : The Feathers of the fe- 

 cond Row incumbent on the green quill Feathers have white Tips, which 

 taken together, make a crofs Line of white in the "V^ing ; the leffer covert 

 Feathers of the Wing, excepting thofe on the outermoft Bone, are of a 

 pleafant blue, inclining to an afh Coluor ; the Tail is about three Inches 

 and a half long, and conftfts of fourteen Feathers party-coloured of white 

 and black, the outermoft being wholly white, and the middlemoft, except 

 the extreme Edges, wholly black ; the reft black in their middle parts, and 

 white about th:; Borders or Outlides. At the Divarication of the V/ind-Fipe 

 it hath a fmall Labyrinth, a large Gall, oblong Tefticles ; a fmall mufcu- 

 lous Stomach or Gizzard ; the Guts many times refleded and very long : 

 The Female in refped: of Colours, both in the Head and Neck, the whole Body, 

 upper Side and under Side, excepting the Wings, is very like to the IVild 

 Duck; the Wings are of the fame Colour with thofe of the Male, but more 

 dull, and wanting the Beauty which is in his. B b The 



