682 ANATID^E. 



Head, sides of the face, chin, throat, and about one-half of the neck all 

 round deep black, with glossy green reflections ; below this the neck all round 

 is white, as are also the back, wing coverts, rump, upper tail coverts and tai! 5 

 the latter tipped with black ; a broad band of ferruginous or orange chestnut 

 across the breast, meeting above on the foreback ; under surface white, except 

 a mesial band in the middle of the abdomen ; primaries black ; greater coverts 

 forming the speculum, and outer webs of the secondaries glossy golden 

 green ; upper secondaries chestnut on their outer webs ; tertiaries and scapulars 

 black ; bill blood-red, with a knob at the base of the upper mandible ; nail 

 black ; bill deep red ; irides brown ; legs fleshy red. 



Length. 23-35 inches ; wing 12 to 13-5; tail 475 to 5-5 ; tarsus 2 to 2-3. 

 Females average 20 to 22 inches in length, and are much duller in colour. 



Sab. Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, E. Turkestan, Punjab, 

 N.-W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Kutch and Kattiawar Coast. Except in large 

 lakes, the Shelldrake is only found on the sea-coast in the neighbourhood of 

 the sea, -which is its proper home. 



Sub-Family, 



Hind toe small, not bordered by a membrane ; bill even in width throughout, 

 or wider at the tip ; lamellae numerous, fine and bristly. 



Gen. Spatula, Boie. 



Bill longer than the head, narrow at the base, broad at the tip, shovel-like ; 

 nail small ; lamellae fine and bristly, 



Spatula clypeata. The Shoveller. 



1386. Spatula clypeata (Zi.) Bodd > Tab.P.E.^. 971, 972; 



Gould, B. Eur. pi. 300 ; Jerd. y B.Ind, iii. p.,796 ; Str. F. iv.p. 199; Murray, 

 HdbU., Zool. t fyc., Sind, p. 235 / id., Vert. Zool. Smd, p. 290 ; Hume and 

 Marsh., Game Birds Ind. p. 141. (Vern., Alipat, Sind.) The SHOVELLER. 



Male. Head and neck all round deep or dark brown with glossy green 

 reflections ; back brown ; scapulars and breast white ; rump and upper tail 

 coverts glossy brown black; sides of the rump '-white; tail brown, the outer 

 feathers white, the rest edged with_ white ; primaries dusky brown, white 



