BRITISH BIRDS, 
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SHOVELER. 
BLUE-WING SHOVELER, KERTLUTOCK, OR BROAD-BILL. 
( Anas clypeaia, Lin . — Le Souchet, Buff. ) 
The Shoveler is lefs than the Wild Duck, com- 
monly weighing about twenty-tjvo ounces, and mea- 
furing twenty-one inches in length. The bill is 
black, three inches long, very broad or fpread out, 
and rounded like a fpoon at the end, with the nail 
hooked inward and fmall : the infides of the man- 
dibles are remarkably well furnilhed with thin pec- 
tinated rows, which fit into each other like a weaver’s 
brake, and through which no dirt can pafs, while 
the bird is feparating or lifting the fmall worms and 
infects from amongfl the mud, by the edges of the 
water, where it is continually fearching for them : 
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