. How to know the ducks, geese and swans of North America, all the species being grouped according to size and color. Ducks; Geese; Swans; Birds. 50 DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS OF NORTH AMERICA. Genus SPATULA Boie. SPATULA CLYPEATA {Unn.). Shoveller. Broad-bill. Adalt inah: Bill, very much broadened: head and neck, dai-k gveen; lireast, i)ure wliite, shading into puri^lish chestnut on the belly; wing coverts, blue; speculum, green, edged with white; feet, orange red. Length, 20; wiug, ; bill, ; tarsus, Adult female: Head and neck, mottled and ;iked with pale brown and dark bro
. How to know the ducks, geese and swans of North America, all the species being grouped according to size and color. Ducks; Geese; Swans; Birds. 50 DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS OF NORTH AMERICA. Genus SPATULA Boie. SPATULA CLYPEATA {Unn.). Shoveller. Broad-bill. Adalt inah: Bill, very much broadened: head and neck, dai-k gveen; lireast, i)ure wliite, shading into puri^lish chestnut on the belly; wing coverts, blue; speculum, green, edged with white; feet, orange red. Length, 20; wiug, ; bill, ; tarsus, Adult female: Head and neck, mottled and ;iked with pale brown and dark brown or. (t'eniale.) () Ijlack; under parts, bi'ownish, mottled and spotted with fuscous, scarcely showing on the middle of the bell_y; speculum and wing coverts as hi the male. Immature male: Intermediate in plumage between the adult male and female, but the speculum shows but little green, and the wing coverts are slaty gray; the head is often lilotched anil mottled when changing to adult plumage. Length, ; wing, ; bill, ; tarsus, The Shoveller, or Broad-bill Duck, occurs throughout the Northern Hemisphere, Ijeing common in the interior. It ranges in winter to South America and the West Indies, and is one of the common species in Florida and the Gulf States. It breeds in the interior from Minnesota northward. The eggs are pale liuff white, usually from six to ten in number. The note of the male is a gutteral short "Thuck, thuck " ; the female ";. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cory, Charles B. (Charles Barney), 1857-1921. Boston, For sale by Little, Brown & Co.
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