452 A> T ATIDJE. 



1602. Spatula clypeata. Tlie Shoveller. 



Anas clypeata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 200 (1766). 



Spatula' clvpeata, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 564 ; Blyth, Cat. p. 303 ; 

 Layard, A. M. N. H. (2) xiv, p. 270 ; Irby, Ibis, 1861, p. 249 ; 

 Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 796 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, 

 p. 275 ; Stoliczka, J.A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 255 ; Layard, P. Z. S. 

 1873, . 205 ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 260 ; Adam, ibid. p'. 402 ; Butler, 

 S. F. iv, p. 28 ; Fairbank, ibid. p. 264 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped., 

 Aves, p. 700 ; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 232 ; Hume, ibid. p. 492 ; id. Cat. 

 no. 957 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 32 ; Leffffe, Birds Ceyl. p. 1086 ; 

 Hume $ Marsh. Game B. iii, p. 141, pi.; Vidal, S. F, ix, p. 92 : 

 Butler, ibid. p. 437; Biddulph. Ibis, 1881, p. 99; Scully, ibid. 

 p. 592 ; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1882, p. 124; Reid, S. F. x, p. 80 ; David- 

 son, ibid. p. 325; Hume, ibid. p. 417; Macgregor, ibid. p. 442; 

 Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 401 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 343 ; Salvadori, 

 Ami. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) iv, p. 616; id. Cat. B. M. xxvii, 

 p. 306. 



Tidari, Punana, Tokanvala, Ghirah, H. ; Panta-mukhi, Beng. ; Dho- 

 baha, Sankhar $ , Khikheria Sankhar $ , Nepal ; Alipdt, Sind. 



Fig. 118. Bill of 8. clypeata. \. 



Coloration. Male in full plumage. Head and upper neck glossy 

 green ; lower neck, except behind, and upper breast, sides of the 

 breast, and shorter scapulars pure white; hind neck and back 

 dark brown, the feathers pale-edged ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 black, glossed with green; tail dark brown, the outer feathers 

 broadly edged with white ; wing-coverts and outer webs of two 

 of the longer scapulars bluish grey, remainder of long scapulars 

 black, all with broad white shaft-stripes ; quills brown; speculum 

 formed by outer webs of secondaries bright green, bordered in 

 front by a bar of white formed by the larger coverts ; tertiaries 

 blackish, slightly glossed with green, each with a fusiform white, 

 or whitish, stripe along the shafts ; lower breast and abdomen 

 chestnut ; some of the feathers of the flanks and about the vent 

 finely barred with buff; lower flanks white; under tail-coverts 

 black, glossed with green. 



