I 



37. SPATULA. 317 



Naumannia, 18.j3, p. 222; riiil. Sf Landh. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 4.3 



(1868) : Waugh 4" Lataste, Act. Soc. Sc. Chil. iv. p. Ixxxix (Pena- 



iiores) (1894). 

 Rhynchaspis maculata, Hartl. Verz. Ges. Mus. p. 120 (1344). 

 Spatula rhynchotis, part., G. li. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 140, 



specim. (!<"(1844); id. Ge>i. B. iii. p. G18, n. 2 (part.) (184.j). 

 Datila csesioscapula, Itchnb. Si/n. Av., Natatores, t. li. (89) f. 180 



(ia4.5). 



Datila ciBsioscapulata, Bihra, Denkschr. Ak. Wwn, v. p. 131 (Chili) 



(1853) ; id. J.f. O. 18.>5, p. 57. 

 Khvnchaspis mexicana, Licht. [nee Gm.) Komencl. Av. p. 102 



(Montevideo, Chili) (1854). 

 Rhynchaspis platalea, Bj). Co7npt. Send, xliii. p. 6.50, n. 83 (18.56). 

 Spatula maculatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 95 (Peru ?, Bolivia ?) : 



Eyt. Syn. Anat. p. 89 (1869). 

 Spatula (Rhynchaspis) maculata, Pelz. Peis. Xovara, Von. p. 139 



(Chili) (1865). 



Adult male. General plumage reddish, thickly spotted -vyith black: 

 head and neck light rufescent, minutely dotted ■with black, chin 

 almost immaculate ; crown black, with pale edges to the feathers : 

 chest and abdomen chestnut ; shorter scapulars reddish, with black 

 spots like the back ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts black, 

 with a golden gloss ; under tail-coverts black ; on the lower flanks, 

 at the base of the tail, a white patch ; longer scapulars glossy black, 

 with a central buff stripe along the middle, the superior ones edged 

 with rufous ; wing-coverts light blue, the last row white at the tip, 

 forming a band anteriorly to the wing-si^eculum, which is glossy 

 green, with a blue lustre towards the tip and on the inner second- 

 aries ; primary-coverts and primaries greyish brown, the latter 

 darker and with a green lustre towards the tip ; marginal under 

 wing-covert greyish brown, with a blue tinge, the remainder and 

 the axillars white ; tail greyish black, the outer feathers lighter, 

 all broadly edged with whitish on the outer webs: bill dark, almost 

 blackish ; feet yeUow ; irides white. Total length about 20 inches, 

 wing 9, tail 5'3, culmen 2"o, tarsus 1-4. 



Female. Very similar to the female of S. ch/jnaia, so like that it 

 is very difficult to distinguish it, except by the bill, which is a little 

 shorter and in dry skin of a dusky colour, while in /$'. chipeata it 

 becomes yellowish. 



Hah. Southern America, from the Falklands and Patagonia to 

 Peru on the "West, and Paraguay on the East : possibly also Bolivia. 



a. (S ad. St. No locality. Lord Byron [P.]. 



h. 9 juv. sk. Tarapaca, X. Chili, Feb. H. Berkeley James, 



Esq. [P.]." 

 c, d,e. c? 2 "fl- Central Chili. H. Berkeley James, 



sk. Esq. [P.]. 



f. S ad. sk. Rio Bueno, Chili, Jan. H. Berkeley James, 



Esq. [P.]. 



g, h. $ juv. sk. Rio Pilmaiquen, Chili, Feb. H. Berkeley James, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 i. (S ad. sk. Santiago, Chili {Leybold). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. $ imm. sk. Mendoza. II. J. Elwes, Esq. [P.]. 



