SHOVELLER. 
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though at no great distance from a slade or swampy pool. In the summer of 1881 a Shovellei brought 
out her young from a stack of cut reeds piled up alongside a marsh-dyke in the east of Norfolk . the 
nest was placed about two feet from the ground. 
A few words with reference to the Plates may he of service. 
In Plate I. an immature male and female are shown in the plumage of the first winter ; the specimens 
from which the sketches are taken were shot on Hickling Broad on December 6, 1872. 
A male just assuming the full dress is represented in Plate II., together with the male in dark brown 
plumage previously referred to : both specimens were shot on Hickling Broad on December 1, 1881. 
The perfect adult plumage of the male and female is given in Plate III. : the pair of birds from which 
the figures arc taken were shot on Hickling Broad on December 5, 1872. 
