FASCIATED SHOVELER. 



LENGTH eighteen inches: beak an inch and a 

 quarter long, of a pale ash-colour ; the end of it soft, 

 membranaceous, and black : the top of the head 

 greenish ash-colour : the prevailing colour of the 

 plumage is a bluish lead-colour : across the wing is 

 a white band : the breast is varied with ferruginous : 

 the legs are dusky lead-colour. 



Inhabits New Zealand : the singular structure of 

 its beak is a remarkable peculiarity of this bird, the 

 end being very flexible and soft. 



FASCIATED SHOVELEIt. 



(Rhynchaspis membranacea.) 



RH. fusco-ferruginea subtus alba transversim lineata, superciliis 

 Jerrugineis, rostro apice membranaceo. 



Rusty-brown Shoveler beneath white striped transversely, with 

 the eyebrows rust-coloured, and the tip of the beak membra- 

 naceous. 



Anas membranacea. Lath. Ind. Orn. App. Ixix. 



Anas fasciata. Shaw, Nat. Misc. 17. pi- 697? 



New Holland Duck. Lath. Syti. Sup. ii. 359. 



LENGTH about twenty inches : beak large, the tip 

 soft and membranous, black : irides blue : the upper 

 part of the head, a patch round the eye, and the back 

 part of the neck, dusky : above and behind the eye 

 a rust-coloured streak : back and wings rusty-brown : 

 some of the inner feathers of the latter have very 

 pale tips, and also some of the feathers on the lower 



