_Anas clypeata_ Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 124.
(Type locality, Coasts of Europe, restricted to southern Sweden.)
_Spatula clypeata_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 185
(Pagan); Yamashina, Tori, 10, 1940, p. 676 (Pingelap); Hand-list
Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 206 (Pagan, Pingelap).
_Anas clypeata_ Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 302
(Micronesia).
_Geographic range._--Breeds in northern Europe, Asia, North America
and adjacent islands. Winters to northern Africa, southern Asia,
Philippines, Hawaiians, southern United States to Central America.
In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Pagan, Tinian; Caroline
Islands--Ponapé, Pingelap.
_Specimens examined._--One female from Mariana Islands,
USNM--Tinian (Oct. 12).
_Remarks._--The Shoveller is known from localities in the Marianas and
in the Carolines. In the collections of the American Museum of Natural
History there is a female taken by Rollo Beck at Kauehi, Tuamotu
Archipelago, on March 6, 1923. A specimen examined from Tinian was taken
there by Joe T. Marshall, Jr., at Lake Hogoya on October 12, 1945.
Richards obtained two Shovellers (one immature male and one immature
female) at Ponapé on December 21, 1947, and January 6, 1948,
respectively. He found them in a pond in a bomb crater. This duck
appears to be a casual winter visitor to Micronesia and other parts of
Oceania.
=Aythya fuligula= (Linnaeus)