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SHOVELLER. 
ly with circular touches of white; evidently a young male in 
its imperfect plumage. 
The female has the crown of a dusky brown; rest of the head 
and neck yellowish white, thickly spotted with dark brown; 
these spots on the breast become larger, and crescent-shaped; 
back and scapulars dark brown, edged and centered with yel- 
low ochre; belly slightly rufous, mixed with white; wing nearly 
as in the male. 
On dissection the labyrinth in the windpipe of the male was 
found to be small; the trachea itself seven inches long; the in- 
testines nine feet nine inches in length, and about the thickness 
of a crow quill. 
