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ones dark gray, edged with white. Bill deep black ; iris bright yellow ; legs and feet beautiful 
orange-red. Adult female : Wings as in the male, but colors rather duller. Other parts grayish 
brown above, varied with brownish 
white ; brownish white below, the 
head and neck streaked, the breast, 
abdomen, etc., spotted, with grayish 
brown. Bill brown, mandible or- 
ange ; iris yellow and feet orange- 
red, as in the male. Young male: 
Similar to the adult female, but 
lower parts (always V) tinged with 
chestnut. Young female: Similar to 
the adult, but wing-coverts dull 
slate, with little, if any, blue tinge, 
the speculum dusky, with a very 
faint green reflection, and rather 
broadly tipped with brownish white. 
Downy young : Above, grayish 
brown, with a brownish-white spot 
on each side of the back, and a cor- 
responding pair on the rump ; pile- 
urn darker than the back and nape ; 
head (except pileum) and entire 
lower parts pale grayish fulvous, 
or dirty grayish huffy white, shaded 
with brownish gray across the jugu- 
lum ; a narrow stripe of dark brown 
from the upper angle of the base 
of the bill to the eye, and contin- 
ued posteriorly about half way to 
the occiput ; another similar stripe 
beneath the last, beginning a little behind the posterior border of the eye, and extending farther 
back than the one above it. [Described from No. 65561, Souris R., Dakota, Aug. 10, 1873 ; Dr. 
E. Coues, U. S. A.] 
Total length, about 20.00 inches ; ex- 
tent, 31.00 to 33.00 inches ; wing, 9.00- 
10.00; culrnen, 2.60-2.90; width of bill 
at end, 1.10-1.20, at base, .60 ; tarsus, 1.40- 
1.50; middle toe, 1.65-1.75. Specimens 
vary considerably in colors : usually the 
white of the chest and scapulars is nearly 
or quite immaculate ; but not infrequently 
these portions are more or less spotted Avith 
dusky. The chestnut of the abdomen is 
sometimes immaculate, sometimes barred 
with dusky. 
The Shoveller Duck, rvliile no- 
where conspicuously numerous, ap- 
pears to have the most extended 
distribution of any species of the 
Female. Duck tribe. It is found throughout 
North and Central America as far to 
;he south as Panama ; is more or less common in every portion of Europe and Asia, 
