  A measurement of the energy spectrum of recoil electrons from solar neutrino
scattering in the Super--Kamiokande detector is presented. The results shown
here are obtained from 504 days of data taken between the 31st of May, 1996 and
the 25th of March, 1998. The shape of the measured spectrum is compared with
the expectation for solar B8 neutrinos. The comparison takes into account both
kinematic and detector related effects in the measurement process. The spectral
shape comparison between the observation and the expectation gives a chi-square
of 25.3 with 15 degrees of freedom, corresponding to a 4.6% confidence level.

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