400 
ANATIDyE. 
NA TA TORES. 
ANATIDsE. 
SHOVELER. 
Anas clypeata. 
PLATE CXII. FIG. II. 
Mr. John Hancock lias the nest and eggs of the 
Shoveler which were found upon Prestwick Carr, a piece 
of waste ground of considerable extent near Newcastle- 
O 
upon-Tyne, covered with heath and furze, boggy, and 
intersected with drains, and having a piece of water near 
its centre. From thence, towards the end of May, a nest 
was brought to him containing nine eggs; it was com¬ 
posed of grass mixed with the down of the bird, and 
was placed in the centre of a furze-bush, by which it 
was sheltered. Two or three weeks after this, a second 
nest was found at a short distance from the spot from 
which the other had been taken : it was constructed 
of the same materials, was similarly situated, and con¬ 
tained ten eggs ; these were quite fresh, and led us to 
suppose that they belonged to the same bird which had 
been previously deprived of its eggs. 
I have likewise received the egg of the Shoveler from 
Norfolk, from Mr. Salmon, taken on the 10th of May 
from a nest which was placed amongst a quantity of 
green rushes, but without the profusion of feathers so 
generally observed in the nest of this tribe of birds, 
there being barely a sufficient quantity of dry grass 
