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as sixteen, and which she covers with down from her own body. The 

 nest is generally near the water, where she leads her young- soon after 

 they are hatched. It is rarely met with remote from salt water ; but 

 if the eggs are taken and hatched under a hen, the young become tame, 

 and may be kept in ponds ; but it seldom breeds in confinement. A 

 nobleman informed me he had one instance only in several years, 

 although they had the range of a very extensive canal. The female 

 brought out nine young ones. The eggs are white, about the size of 

 those of a common duck. 



It is very tenacious of its young, and it is said will carry them from 

 place to place in its bill ; indeed it is probable when the young are 

 hatched high above the water, the parent birds must carry them down. 

 Their principal food is sea-weed, small shell-fish, and marine insects. 



SHEPSTER. — A name for the Starling. 



SHILFA. — A name for the Chaffinch. 



SHORE BIRD.— A name for the Bank Swallow. 



SHORT EARED or HORN OWL.— A name for the Hawk Owl. 



SHOVELER {Spathulea clypeata, Fleming.) 



Anas clypeata, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 200. 19. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 518 Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. p. 856. 60.— Briss. 6. p. 329. 6. t. 32. f. 1 Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 450 Lath. Syn. 



Supp. 2. p. 353.— Linn. Trans. 4. p. 109. t. 13. f. 4. 5. (Trachea.)— Bewick's 

 Br. Birds, 2. t. p. 345. — Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. p. 842. — Anas muscaria, Linn. 



Syst. 1. p. 200. B. — Eaii, Syn. p. 146 Will. p. 287 Anas clypeata ventre 



candido, Briss. 6. p. 337. A. — Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 451. — Tempatlahoac, Raii, Syn. p. 



176.— Will. p. 299.— Ib. (Angl.) p. 387.— Lath. Syn. 6. p. 51 h A. B 



Shoveler, Flem. Br. Anim. p. 123. 



YOUNG. 



Anas rubens, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 519. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 857. — Redbreasted 



Shoveler, Br. Zool. 2. No. 281.— Lath. Syn. 6. p. 512 Mont. Orn. Diet— 



Barbary Shoveler, Shaw's Trav. p. 254? — Anas Platyrynchos, Raii, Syn. p. 144. 

 13. (km.)— Will. p. 283. 15.— J&.284. 16. (fem.)-Anas Platyrynchus altera, 

 Raii, Syn. p. 143. A. 9. (mas.)— Will. p. 283. (mas.)-Souchet, Buff. Ois. 9. 



p. 91.— Shoveler, Br. Zool. No. 280 Ib. fol. 155. t. Q. 4 Arct. Zool. 2. No. 



485.— Will. (Angl.) p. 370. 15. (mas.) 371. 16. 17. (fem.)— Albin, 1. t. 97. 



98.— Haye's Br. Birds, t. 27. (mas.)— Lath. Syn. 6. p. 509. 55 Ost. Men. 



p. 52. t. (mas.)— Lewin's Br. Birds, 7. t. 252.— Wale. Syn. 1. t. 67.— Pult. 

 Cat. Dorset, p. 21. 



Provincial. — Blue-winged Shoveler. 



Length twenty-one inches ; weight twenty-two ounces ; the bill is 



black, near three inches in length, spreading near the end to a great 



breadth; the edges much pectinated; irides yellow; the head and upper 



part of the neck glossy-green, changeable to blue or violet ; the lower 



part of the neck, breast, and scapulars, white, the two first sometimes 



spotted ; back brown ; belly chestnut ; vent black ; the wing coverts 



pale blue ; the greater brown, tipped with white ; the greater quills are 



brown ; the secondaries are of a glossy-green on the outer webs ; the 



