SHOVELER, 
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to keep tlie eggs from the bare sand; it was much ex¬ 
posed, and contained eight eggs, which were within a 
few days of hatching. 
The Messrs. Paget state that the Shoveler is occasion¬ 
ally not at all uncommon in Norfolk, and that several 
nests, containing altogether fifty-six eggs, were found 
during one summer in Winterton Marshes. 
Mr. Charles St. John has found the eggs of this spe¬ 
cies on the banks of Loch Spynie in Murrayshire; and 
Mr. Henry Milner tells me that it breeds on Hornsea 
Mere in Yorkshire. The eggs differ considerably in size. 
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