120 RUDDY SHOVELER. 



Dr. Latham received this bird from Jamaica, where 

 it first appears in October or November, and stays 

 till March, when it retires north. 



RUDDY SHOVELER. 



(Rliynchaspis rubida.) 



RH. geiiis men'oqite albix, vertice nigro, corpore supra spadiceo, 

 co!li parte inferiori pectoreque n'gricante-olivaceis, lunulisj'uscis, 

 (ibdomine cano. 



Shoveler with the cheeks and chin white, the crown black, the 

 body al ore spadiceous, the lower part of the neck and the breast 

 dusky-olive, with brown lunules, the abdomen hoary. 



Ruddy Duck. (Anas rubida.) Wils. Amer. Orn. v. viii, p. 128- 

 ;;/. 1\.f- 5. male;y. 6. female. 



Tins species, which greatly resembles the pre- 

 ceding, is described by Wilson, from two specimens, 

 one of each sex, which were shot on the banks of the 

 river Delaware in the United States of America, as 

 follows : " The Ruddy Duck is fifteen inches and a 

 half in length, twenty-two inches in extent : the beak 

 is broad at the tip; the under mandible much nar- 

 rower, and both of a rich light blue : nostrils small, 

 placed in the middle of the beak : cheeks and chin 

 white : front, crown, and back part of the neck down 

 nearly to the back, black : rest of the neck, whole 

 back, scapulars, flanks, and tail-coverts deep reddish- 

 brown, the colour of bright mahogany: wings plain 

 pale drab, darkest at the points: tail black, greatly 



