PLATE CCXXIII. 



AnsiS platyrynchos. Rail Si/ii. p. 144. 13. — Will, p, 283. — xv.— 



Id, 284. XVI. (Femina.) 

 Anas viiefcens. Marf. Dan. v. p. ViO. t, 58. 

 Avis latiroftra. Klein. Av. p. 134. £0. 

 Souchet. Buf. IX. p. 1C)I.— P/. Enl. 97J, 972. 

 Loeffelenle. Bloch. Schr. der. Btrl. Naturf. Fr. 111. p, 373. 17 , 



/. 7./. 2. 



Shoveler. (Will. Angl.) p. 370. 1.5. male— Id. 371. 16, 17. 

 female. 



Albin 1. t. 97, 98. 



Catefi. Car. L t, 96, 



Lath. Gen. S]/n, G. p. 509- 55. 



The two fexes of the Shoveler Duck are materially diflimilar in ap- 

 pearance, and differ a little in point of lize : the head and neck of the 

 male bird is violet green, that of the female brown and fpeckled with 

 fufcous; and tlie breafi: of the former white with the belly chefnut, and 

 the vent white ; the female is alfo rather fmaller than the male bird. 

 The length of the male is twenty one inches, and the weight twenty 

 two ounces. 



It appears that the Kngliih name of Shoveler has been given to this 

 bird, in allufion to the very peculiar ftru6ture of the bill : this is 

 large, broad, and flattifli, and may be not inaptly compared, in its 

 general appearance, to the fpatulous portion of a fhovel, and to this 

 it may be added, that the bird employs it much in the manner of a 

 fcoop, and with lingular dexterity in catching its food. This conMs 



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