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JAMAICA SHOVELER. 



(Rhynchaspis Jamaicensis.) 



RH. Jusco croceojerrugineoque varia, dorso alls, caud&quejliscis, 



capite superiore nigro, subtus cum guld albo maculis nigris. 

 Shoveler varied with brown, saffron, and rust-colour, with the 



back, wings, and tail brown, the head above black, beneath, 



with the throat, white with black spots. 

 Anas Jamaicensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 519. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 857. 

 Jamaica Shoveler. Lath. Gen. Syu. 6. 513. 



DESCRIBED by Latham as below, from a specimen 

 in his own possession. " Size of the Buffel-headed 

 Duck (Clangula albeola) : length sixteen inches : 

 beak an inch and three quarters ; in shape very 

 broad, and turns up a little towards the end : general 

 colour of the upper mandible blue ; but the place of 

 the nostrils, sides, and all the under mandibles, are 

 orange : the eyes placed high up in the head : irides 

 brown : top of the head, taking in the eyes, black : 

 sides beneath, chin, and throat white, mixed with 

 blackish spots : the upper part of the neck is brown ; 

 the lower part all round,breast, and belly, barred dusky 

 and deep ferruginous, inclining to saffron colour : 

 the lower part of the belly, vent, and rump, barred 

 dusky and dirty rufous-white : under tail-coverts dirty 

 white : back and scapulars brown, a little marbled 

 with minute yellowish dots : wings and tail plain 

 dusky brown : the last cuneiform in shape, and rather 

 long : legs orange." 



