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Male: head and neck, lesser coverts, and tertiaries light blue, 
some of the latter with a stripe on the inner side of the shaft white ; 
- bar behind the base of the bill, on each side, white; centre of the 
back, quills, and tail white, with a lunule near the tip and two spots - 
on the shaft of each feather brown; wing-spot bright brassy green, 
anterior to which is a white stripe; flanks, belly, and breast deep 
ferruginous, the former barred and dotted, and the latter undulated 
with brown ; above the thighs, on each side, a white spot ; under and 
- upper tail coverts black; under wing coverts white; top of the 
head and back of the neck darkest; bill black; legs orange. 
Fem.: brown, with the tip of each feather lighter; below lightest ; 
_lesser coverts slightly inclining to blue; bill and legs horn-colour in 
the dried specimen. 
Young: male nearly intermediate between the two ; bill black ; 
legs orange. 
ANAS RAYRCKOUS 00. st0assvacee: Lath. Ind. Orn. App. 1. 
Spatula Rhynchotis .....0+ 0+ Steph. in Sh. Zool. 12. 128. 
New Holland Shoveller........+ Lath. Gen. Syn. Sup. 359. 
inhabits New Holland, and appears to be identical with specimens 
received from South America. 
The bird described by Latham under the name of Anas Rhynchotis 
is the young. It is possible also that the white markings mentioned 
as present in our specimens of the old male, behind the base of the 
bill and down the fore neck, are not constant, but merely appear 
during the moult. 
SPATULA MACULATUS. 
Spat.—Precedenti similis, sed corpore flavescente-ferrugineo, 
nigris maculis rotundatis ornatis; capite simili, nigro sparso. 
SPOTTED SHOVELLER. 
Shoveller like the preceding, but with the body yellowish fer- 
ruginous, adorned with rounded black spots; head the same, sprinkled 
with black. 
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