318 AJ?ATID^. 



/. c? ad. sk. Uruguay, Oct. Alan Peel, Esq. [C.]. 



tn. (S ad. sk. Couchitas, Buenos Ayres Salvin-Godman CoU. 



(jr. H. Hudson), 



n. (S sAsk. Moreno, Buenos Ayres, May. II. Durnford, Esq. [P.]. 



0. (S ad. sk. Sandy Point, Str. of ' Challenger ' Expea. 



Magellan. 



p. $ juv. sk. Falkland Is. (Leconte). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Spatula capensis. 



Rhyncliaspis capensis, Smith, Cat. S. Afr. Mus. p. 36, no. 322 (1837) 

 (descr. nulla) ; Eijt. Mon. Anat. p. 135 (1838) ; Smith, III. S. 

 Afr. Zool., Birds, pi. 98 (1844) ; Bp. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 650, 

 n. 84 (1850) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 354 (1867) ; Boc. Jorn. Ac. 

 Sc. Lisb. 1867, p. 330 ; Gum. Ibis, 1868, p. 50 (Transvaal and 

 Natal) ; E. L. Layard, Ibis, 1869, p. 377 (eggs) ; Boc. Jorn. Ac. 

 Sc. Lisb. 1872, p. "70 ; Salvad. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 173 (note). 



Spatula clypeata, part., G. B. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 139, 

 specim.j (Cape) (1844). 



Spatula capensis, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 618, n. 3 (1845) ; Bchnb. 

 Syti. Av., Natatores, t. L. (88) ff. 219-220 (1845) (e.r Smith) ; 

 ? Des Murs, m Lefebvre, Voy. Abyss., Ois. p. 172 (1845-1850) ; 

 Gotdd, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 95 ; Byt. Syn. Anat. p. 91 (1869) ; G. R. 

 Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 85, n. 10679 (1871) ; Andcrss. B. Damara 

 Land, p. 341 (1872) ; Boc. J. f. 0. 1876, p. 294 (llio Coroca) ; 

 Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 523 ; Boc. Orn. Angola, p. 504 (Eio Coroca) 

 (1881) ; Bidl, FeUd., Sf Reid, Zoolog. 1882, p. 428 (Natal) ; Sharpe, 

 Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 759 (1884) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 48 

 (1889). 



Anas clypeata, part., Schley. Mus. P.-B., Anseres, pp. .33, .34 (specim. 

 from S. Africa) (1866); Gieb. Thes.Orn. i. p. 348 (part.) (1872). 



Anas capensis, part., Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 346 (1872). 



Spatula smithii, Hartert, Kat. Voyelsamml. p. 331, note 447 (1891). 



Adult male. Upper part of the head dark brown, with the edges 

 of the feathers dull greyish, producing a streaked appearance ; sides 

 of the head and upper part of the neck dull whitish grey, finely 

 mottled with dark brown streaks ; mantle and upper part of the 

 back brown, with irregular undulated narrow bars ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts dark brown, with a green gloss ; lower parts 

 dull greyish brown, thickly mottled with brown irregular markings : 

 on the lower neck and crop-region the feathers are brown, with 

 U-shaped rufesceut bars ; flanks brown, with narrow pale reddish- 

 white irregular bars ; upper wing-coverts smalt-blue ; a white band 

 anteriorly to the speculum, broader outwardly than inwardly ; 

 speculum dark metallic green, with a blue tinge towards the tip 

 and on the outer edge of the secondaries ; tertials dark metallic 

 greenish blue, longer scapulars dark blue-green, more bluish on the 

 outer web ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; the marginal 

 under wing-covert brown, edged with white ; tail blackish with 

 a greenish tinge, the feathers with pale narrow edges : "iris lemon- 

 yellow ; biU deep reddish brown, almost black ; legs, toes, and webs 

 ochry yellow, but the latter are dusky towards the extremity " 

 {Andersson). Total length 20 to 21 inches, wing 9*5, tail 3-7, 

 culmen 2-35, tarsus 1-5. 



