36 X<>KTH AMERICAN DUCKS. GEESE, AND SWAN-. 
Casarca casarca ( Linn.) . Ruddy Sheldrake. 
This is a European, African, and Asiatic species that has been taken 
several times in western and northern Greenland. 
Spatula clypeata (Linn. ). Showier. 
Breeding range. — The principal North American summer home of 
the shoveler is in the prairie region of the interior, from a little south 
of the Canadian border, north to the Saskatchewan. Throughout this 
region it is common. To the eastward it is rare. It is scarcely com- 
mon as far as Hudson Bay; nor is it common east of a line from south- 
eastern Michigan to the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, in which latter 
region it is found only in migration and in winter. In the maritime 
provinces of Canada, and even north to Newfoundland, the shoveler has 
been recorded as a rare or casual visitor; but reliable breeding records 
from this region seem to be lacking. It is rare as a breeder in southern 
Michigan, and to the eastward is almost accidental in summer, though 
it has been known to breed at English Lake, northwestern Indiana, and 
at Long Point, on the north shore of Lake Erie. The regular breed- 
ing range extends south to northern Iowa and southern South Dakota; 
thence southward it breeds rarely and locally in Nebraska and Kansas, 
and during the summer of 1905 one of the parties of the Biological 
Survey found it breeding near East Bernard, about latitude 29° 30', in 
southeastern Texas. In the western United States the species breeds 
commonly from Colorado to northern California, and rarely in New 
Mexico (Santa Rosa), Arizona (Mogollon Mountains), and southern 
California (Los Angeles County). On the southern coast of Texas the 
species is not uncommon all summer, though these summer residents 
are probably nonbreeders. Mated birds have been found in May in 
northern Chihuahua, Mexico, and at the southern end of Lower Cali- 
fornia, and it is not improbable that the species may breed locally in 
these districts, and even south to Lake Chapala, Jalisco. 
The northern limit of the usual breeding range is from the valley of 
the Saskatchewan to central British Columbia. The species is a rare 
breeder thence northward to the edge of the Barren Grounds, casually 
to Fort Anderson and Fort McPherson. It is rather rare in the Yukon 
region, but lias been known to breed at Fort Yukon, Nulato, and along 
the west coast of Alaska from the mouth of the Kuskokwim River to 
Kotzebue Sound. The shoveler has a wide range in the Eastern Hemi- 
sphere, breeding north about to the Arctic Circle, and retiring in win- 
ter to northern Africa and southern Asia. 
Winter nnx/e.—A few pass south in winter to Colombia, South 
America (Medellin, Bogota), Panama, Costa Rica, and through the West 
Indies (Cuba, Jamaica, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Barbados, and Trini- 
dad). It is rare in Florida, and seems not to have been noted in the 
