SHOVELER.
HWYADD LYDAN BIG. I1WYAD FRON-GOUll LYDANBIG,
OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
BLUE-WINGED SHOVELER. SHOVELER DUCK. RED-BREASTED S H O V E L E l t.
COMMON SHOVELER. BROAD-BILL. KERTLUTOCK.
Anas- clypiata, PENNANT. MONTAGU.
" rubens. PENNANT.
muscana, GESNER.
Spathuka chpcata, FLEMING. SELBY.
Rhynchaspis chpeata, GOULD.
Anas—A Duck. Clypiata. Clypms—A shield.
THE Shovclcr is more or less common in Europe, in Sweden, Norway
Holland, Prussia, Kamtschatka, Poland, Denmark, Russia, Germany,
Italy, and Fiance. It has been noticed in Asia, in Japan, India, Asia
Minor, Persia, and the country near the Caucasus; and has been
brought both from Southern and Northern Africa. It is found in
America, in the United States and about Hudson's Ray; southwards
also, it is said, as far as Carolina and Mexico.
I n Yorkshire, one was shot in December, 1852, at Carlton Miniott,
near Thirsk, which Edward D. Swarbreck, Esq., of the latter place,
has written me word of. One, a male, was obtained at Riccall, near
Selby, about the £8th. of March, 1850. Edward Dawson, Esq., of
Osgodby Hall, had also one, a male in full plumage, in his decoy in
March, 1856. Specimens have also occurred near Doncaster, York,
Killingbeck, near Leeds, the high moors above Huddcrsrield, and Greatland,
near Halifax, December 16th., 1830. The Rev. R. P. Alington
has met with this bird in the Louth market, no doubt a Lincolnshire
specimen. It has also been noticed, he tells me, on Croxby Lake.
The Rev. George Jeans records to me one shot on the Plow well,
near Tetney.