NATATORES. SPATHULEA. 295 
Forehead, cheeks, and chin pale ochreous-yellow. Region 
of the eyes, crown of the head, and nape of the neck 
greyish-white. Neck, as far as the collar, ochreous- 
yellow, tinged with orange. Collar about half an inch 
in width, black, glossed with green. Breast, mantle, 
scapulars, and under parts of the body gallstone-yellow, 
tinged with orange, being deepest upon the breast. The 
feathers upon the upper parts of the body have their 
margins paler, and the ends of the long tertials pass into 
sienna-yellow. Lesser and middle wing-coverts white ; 
secondary quills green, glossed with purple, and form- 
ing a large speculum; greater quills black. Lower 
part of the back, upper tail-coverts, and tail, black, 
glossed with green. Bill, legs, and feet, black. 
The female has not the black collar; her colours are not 
so bright, and the feathers upon the back are finely 
speckled with grey. 
Genus SPATHULEA, Frew. SHOVELLER. 
GENERIC CHARACTERS. 
Bitt longer than the head, semi-cylindrical at the base, 
strait, depressed in front of the nostrils; the tip much dilated 
and spoon-shaped, terminated by a small hooked nail or der- 
trum. Mandibles laminated ; the lamin very fine, long, 
and like bristles, those of the upper mandible at its posterior 
part projecting much beyond its margins. Under mandible 
narrower than the upper, and having its front part, when 
closed, entirely hid by the projecting and deflected sides of 
the upper mandible. Nasal fosse small, and situated near 
the base of the bill. Nostrils oval, pervious. ‘Tongue broad, 
fleshy, bristly, with the tip triangular. 
Wings long, acuminate, with the first and second quills 
nearly equal in length. 
General 
descrip- 
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