SPATULA CAPENSIS. 759 
Head, ash-grey, profusely streaked with blackish dots; lower 
part of neck and breast, ash-grey, profusely variegated with reddish- 
brown broken bars, giving the plumage a scaled appearance; 
feathers of the back, dark reddish-brown, each feather edged with 
lighter ; speculum of the wing, bright green, edged with white and 
black; shoulders dark ash; legs reddish ; webs dusky; claws black ; 
bill red, the base black. Length, 19’; wing, 83"; tail, 22”. Female 
smaller than the male. 
732. CHAULELASMUS sTREPERUS (L.). Gadwall. 
The late M. Jules Verreaux assured us that he once procured two 
specimens of this bird on the Orange River. 
The following description is taken from Macgillivray’s “ British 
Birds,” vol. v, p. 59: “ Male with the bill an inch and ten-twelfths 
long, eight-twelfths broad toward the end, black; scapulars and 
inner secondaries elongated and acuminate ; middle tail-feathers 
pointed, but not much longer than the rest; upper part of the head 
and nape dusky, with small reddish-brown markings; lower neck 
all round, and part of the back, dusky, with semi-circular white 
lines; middle of the back, scapulars, and sides, finely undulated 
with dusky grey and reddish-white ; smaller wing-coverts grey, 
barred with pale reddish; middle coverts deep chestnut-red ; 
speculum black and white; hind part of back and tail-coverts 
bluish-black ; tail grey. Female with the scapulars, inner secon- 
daries, and tail-coverts less elongated ; the upper part of the head 
dusky, a lightish streak over the eye; the upper parts blackish- 
brown, the feathers edged with reddish; the lower parts light 
reddish, marked with oblong spots of greyish-brown.” 
Fig. Dresser, B. Hur. vi, pl. 424. 
733. SPATULA CAPENSIS (Smith). Cape Shoveller. 
The Shoveller or Slop is rarely seen in the neighbourhood of 
Cape Town, but it accompanied Hrismatura maccoa and Aythia 
capensis when they appeared there in such numbers. Mr. L. C. 
Layard captured a wounded specimen near the Salt River in 
November, 1865. It is common at Vogel Vley, near Talbagh, at 
the Knysna Lakes and at the Berg River, where he obtained eggs, 
which are of a delicate cream colour tinged with green. Axis, 
2” 2''’; diam., 1’’ 6’’’.. Mr. C. D. Griffith says: “It seems rare on 
