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stripe down the centre of each feather ; speculum green ; epulis and tail brown ; the outer tail 

 feathers elongated, pointed ; below chesnut ; bill fuscous red. 



Fem. : brown, having the edges of all the feathers lighter ; wing as in the male. 



RhyncJiaspis clypeata Steph. Sh. Zool. 12. 1 15. 



Atias clypeata Linn. Syst. 1. 200. 1 9. 



Grnel. Syst. 1. 518. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 856. 



Spathulea clypeata Flem. Brit. An. 123. 



Anas platyrhynchos Rati Syn. 144. 13. 



Shoveller Penn. Arc/. Zool. 2 X. 489. 



Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 596. 



Bed-breasted Shoveller Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 597. 



Souchet on le rouge B"ff- Ois. 9. 191. 



Trachea Linn. Trans, vol. 4, tab. 13, Jiff. 4, 5. 



"Was found in the Deccan by Col. Sykes : one specimen has been brought home by Dr. Smith 

 from South Africa. Generally inhabits Asia, Europe, America, and North Africa ; breeds in 

 Holland, and has occasionally bred in Norfolk, laying twelve eggs ; little, however, is known of its 

 nidification. 



Trachea with the tube of nearly equal size ; the inferior larynx bulbous, bulb projecting both 

 before and on the left side, anteriorly slightly acuminate; the bronchiee far apart. 



RHYNCHASPIS CAPENSIS. 



Iihyn. — Brunncus ; Biibtus singulis pennis lunula, centrali, apiceque leviter ferrugineis. 



CAPE SHOVELLER. 



Broun shoveller ; below with a lunule, and the tip of each feather light ferruginous. 



IN. IN- 



Length 22| Tarsi 1 \ 



Bill 2f Middle toe 2| 



Head and neck light brown, minutely spotted with dark brown ; crown and slightly elongated 

 feathers on the occiput darker; below dark sepia brown, each feather having its tip and a transverse 

 lunule in the centre light brownish buff;, the back brown, slightly glossed with greenish; greater 

 quills and tail deep brown, the latter edged with lighter ; secondaries with the outer webs metallic 

 green; tertiaries with the outer webs blue; lesser wing coverts azure, the greater ones white, 

 forming a hand of that colour across the wing; bill black ; legs reddish orange. 



Bhynchaspit i 'apensia Smith, < 'at, S. African Mus. 



We are indebted to Dr. Smith for allowing us to take the above description from the specimens 

 exhibited in the South African museum, of which he intends shortly t<> publish drawings. 



