84 EEPOET OF NEW JEESEY STATE MUSEUM. 



142 Spatula clypeata (Linnaeus). 

 Shoveller, Spoonbill Duck. 



Adult male. — Length, 17-21. Wing, 9-10. Head and neck, metallic green ; 

 back, grayish-brown ; rump, upper and under tail-coverts, black, glossed with 

 green ; breast, white ; abdomen, chestnut ; wing-coverts, light blue ; speculum, 

 metallic green, bordered in front with white. 



Adult female. — Grayish-brown above ; feathers with U-shaped marks of buff ; 

 head, light buffy, speckled with brown ; crown, dusky ; wings as in male, but 

 duller ; under parts, grayish-brown, tinged with vinaceous ; sides barred with 

 buff. 



A rare transient or winter visitant. I have only the following 

 recent records : 



Anglesea; winter, 1888-9. Capt. John Taylor.^ 



Atlantic City ; winter, 1888. I. N. DeHaven.^ 



Salem county ; September 23d, 1904. Dr. W. E. Wharton.^ 



143 Dafila acuta (Linnaeus). 

 Pintail, Sprigtail. 



Adult male. — Length, 21-23. Wing, 9.60-10. Head brown, a dusky band on 

 the crown and back of the neck, and a slight metallic gloss on each side of the 

 occiput ; upper parts and sides, gray, with fine black and white vermiculations ; 

 scapulars largely black, with buff or gray edgings ; wings and tail, gray ; a 

 rather dull metallic speculum bordered in front by cinnamon, beind by black 

 and white ; center tail feathers, black, much lengthened ; under parts, white, 

 vermiculated with gray posteriorly ; under tail-coverts, black. 



Adult female. — Brownish-gray above; head and neck narrowly streaked with 

 dusky ; back with U-shaped marks of pale buff ; under parts, dull white, some- 

 what mottled with dusky. 



Common transient, and less common winter resident. Most plenti- 

 ful on Delaware Bay, and frequent above Philadelphia. Occurs most 

 abundantly in October and November. 



' O. and O., 1892, p. 43. 



= Stone, Birds of E. Pa. and N. J., p. 37. 



^ Burns, Wilson Bull., 1905, p. 27. 



