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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. — Ih. 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. 3A5.~Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. p. 842. — Anas muscaria, Linn. 
Syst. 1. p. 200. B. — Baii, 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. 511. 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’sTrdiV. p. 254? — Anas Platyrynchos, Raii, Syn. p. 144. 
13. (fem.)— .TTi//. p. 283. 15. — Ib. 28A. 16. (fern.) — 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.) — Levnn’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 
