ANATIXiE — THE DUCKS — SPATULA. 



627 



876, 



ones dark gray, edged with white. Bill deep black ; iris bright yellow ; legs and ieet beautiful 



orange-red. Adult female : Wings as in the male, but colors rather duller. Othei- parts grayish 



brown above, varied with brownish 



white ; brownish white below, the 



head and neck streaked, the breast, 



alxlomen, etc., spotted, with grayish 



brown. Bill brown, mandible or- 

 ange; iris yellow and feet orange- 

 red, as ill the male. Young male: 



Similar to the adult female, but 



lower parts (always ?) tinged with 



chestnut. Young female : Similar to 



the adult, but wing-coverts dull 



slate, with little, if any, blue tinge, 



the speculum dusky, with a very 



faint green reflection, and rather 



broadly tipped with brownish white. 



Downy young : Above, grayi:5h 



brown, with a brownish-white spot 



on each side of the back, and a cor- 

 responding pair on the rump ; pile- 



um darker than the back and nape ; 



head (except pileuni) and entire 



lower parts pale grayish fulvous, 



or dirty grayish buffy white, shaded 



with brownish gray across the jugu- 



lum ; a narrow stripe of dark brown 



from the upper angle of tlie base 



of the bill to the eye, and contin- 

 ued posteriorly about half Avay to 



the occiput ; another similar stripe 



beneath the last, beginning a little behind the posterior border of the eye, and extending farther 



back than the one above it. [Described from No. 655C1, Souris R., Dakota, Aug. 10, 1873 ; Dr. 



E. CouES, U. S. A.] 



Total length, about 20.00 inches ; ex- 

 tent, 31.00 to 33.00 inches ; wing, 9.00- 

 10.00 ; culnien, 2.t)0-2.90 ; width of bill 

 at end, 1.10-1.20, at base, .GO ; tarsus, 1.40- 

 1.50; middle toe, 1.(5.5-1.75. Specimens 

 vary considerably in colors : usually the 

 white of the chest and scapulars is nearly 

 '^^■^^iik' 'ii^B or (piite immaculate ; but not infrequently 

 y" ^HIIR,\ ll'fl^V thesis portions are more or less sj)otted with 



du.sky. The chestnut of the abdomen is 

 sometimes immaculate, sometimes barred 

 with dusky. 



The Shoveller Duck, while no- 

 whore conspicuously numerous, ap- 

 pears to have the most extended 

 distribution of any si)ecie3 of the 

 Female. Duck tribe. It is found throughout 



North and Central America as far to 

 the south as Panama ; is more or less common in every portion of Europe and Asia, 



