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X The Natural History of British Ducks 
THE SHOVELER 
Distribution — Increasing in Scotland as a Nesting Species — Bog-loving Habits — Swimming Pose — Curious 
Habit in Courtship — Beetle-catching — Food — Pairing — Loch Leven — Loch Spynie — Spring Courtship — 
Polyandry — Growth of the Bill — Attachment of Male to the Brood — Autumn Movements — Local Names- 
Flight — A Narrow Escape — Plumage of the Male in Spring — Change of Plumage of Young Male from 
Youth to Maturity — The Eclipse Plumage — The Female Shoveler 58 
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Distribution — Not increasing in Great Britain — General Habits — Disposition akin to Shoveler — Identification — 
Courtship — Call-notes — A Long Period in Eclipse Plumage — In Confinement — Hybrids— Plumage of Adult 
Male — Young Male — Female 7^ 
THE BLUE-WINGED TEAL 
Distribution — Habits— An Early Migrant — Plumage — Adult Male — Young Male — Female . . . .76 
THE TEAL 
Distribution — Influx of Migrants — Habits on Arrival— Remunerative to the Punt Gunner—General Habits — 
Flight — Courtship— Nesting Habits — Faithful Mothers — Criminality amongst Birds — The Work of Indi- 
viduals, not of Communities — Mischief by Brown-headed Gulls — In Confinement — Hybrids — Adult Male in 
Spring — Eclipse — Passage of Plumage of Young Male from Youth to Maturity — Adult Female . . -79 
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THE AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL 
Distribution — Habits similar to European Teal—Extraordinary Tameness— Nests — Plumage of Adult Male 
and Female 89 
THE PINTAIL 
Distribution — Increasing in Scotland as a Winter Visitor and Nesting Species — Loch Leven — General Habits — 
In Europe, Asia, and America Shyness— Feeding — Call-notes — Courtship — Nesting Habits — Hybrids — 
Plumage of Adult Male in Spring — Young Male — Immature and Adult Female 92 
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