14 Miscellaneous Circular 15, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Vernacular names.—In general use: Cinnamon teal. In local use: Bluewing (Utah); 
blue-winged teal (Wash.); red-breasted teal (Kans., Calif.); red teal (B. C. , Calif.). 
river teal (Utah); silver teal (La.). 
Book names.—Red duck, sarcelle rousse (red teal), western blue-winged teal. 
141.1 Ruddy Sheldrake (Casarca ferruginea). 
Range.—Southern Europe and northern Africa east to China and Japan, straggling to Scandinavia, 
Iceland, and Greenland and the Atlantic Coast ofthe United States, whereit has been taken in New Jersey 
and North Carolina. 
Names.—No vernacular names are known. 
141.2 Shelduck ( Tadorna tadorna). 
Range.—Breeds in middle Europe and Asia; winters from northern Africa to southern Asia; accidental 
off the coast of Massachusetts. 
Names.—Some of the British names for this species are bar drake, bay duck, burrow 
duck, goose duck, red sheldrake, and sheldrake or shieldrake. 
142. Shoveler (Spatula clypeata). (Fie. 10.) 
Range.—Northern Hemisphere. In North America breeds from northwestern Alaska and northwestern 
Mackenzie and southern Keewatin (N. W. T.) south to southern California, central New Mexico, southern 
Texas, northern Missouri, and northern Indiana; winters from southern British Columbia, Arizona, New 
Mexico, southern Missouri, southern Illinois, Maryland, and Delawaresouth tothe West Indies, Colombia, 
and Havvaii; in migration occasionalin Bermuda, and north to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. 
FIG. 10.—Shoveler. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Spoonbill, sometimes spoonbill duck, and often shortened to spoony. 
In local use.—Broadbill (Mass., N. J., Pa., Del., Md., Mich., Wash.); broad-faced 
mallard (Utah, Calif.); broady (Ill. ye cowan (La.); cow- frog” (N. C.); featherbed 
(Wis.); French teal (Que.); Jew duck (II11.); laughing mallard (Calif.); loffel-ente 
(spoon-duck) (Mo.); mesquin (mean; micoine, and mecoine are corruptions of mes- 
quin) (La.); mud duck (Nebr.); mud-lark (Wash.); mud-shoveler (Fla.); mule 
duck (F'la.); salt-water mallard (Calif.); scooper (Ala., La.); shovelbill (N. J., Md.); 
shovelmouth (S. C.); shovelnose (La.); shoveler (Del., Md., Va.); soup-lips (Utah); 
spoon-billed teal (Ga.); spoon-billed widgeon (Ga., Fla.). 
Geographic index.—Ala., scooper; Calif. , broad- faced mallard, laughing mallard, 
salt-water mallard; Del. . broadbill, ‘shoveler; Fla., mud shoveler, mule duck, spoon- 
billed widgeon; Ga. , Spoon- -billed teal, spoon- -billed widgeon; J/l., broady, J ew duck; 
La., cowan, mesquin, scooper, shovelnose; Md., shovelbill, ’ shoveler; Mass., broad- 
bill: Mich., proadbill; Mo., léftel- -ente; Nebr., mud duck; N. lie broadbill, shovelbill; 
N. C., cow-frog; Pa., broadbill; Que., French teal; S. C., shovelmouth; Utah, broad- 
faced mallard, soup-lips; Va., shoveler; Wash., broadbill, mud-lark; Wis., featherbed, 
