190 ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 
CAPE SHOVELER. 
(Spatula capensts ). 
This species of broad-billed Duck has not yet been 
imported alive into this country, nor is there any specimen 
in the Zoological Gardens. From Dr. Bowdler Sharpe’s edition 
of Layard’s ‘‘ Birds of South Africa,” we learn that it is rarely 
seen in the neighbourhood of Cape Town, or on the Eastern 
frontier, but that it is more generally met with in the interior of 
the Colony, where it is known as the “Slop.” Little is reported 
of its habits or nidification, but they are probably very similar 
to those of our more familiar species. 
Male.—Head grey, finely spotted with dark brown; 
upper body brown, with a greenish gloss, each feather bordered 
with white, giving to the bird a scaley appearance ; wing-feathers 
brown, with a broad bar of azure blue, white, and metallic 
green; bill black; feet orange red; eye yellow. 
Female.—Similar, but less bright. 
Young.— Head, neck, and body more rusty than the 
adult ; shoulder-coverts pale brownish-red, glossed with greyish- 
blue; no distinct white speculum; bill light reddish-brown, 
greenish at sides. 
Egg.—Pale greenish-yellow. 
AUSTRALIAN SHOVELER. 
(Spatula rhynchotts ). 
This bird is also known as the ‘‘ New Holland Shoveler,” 
and I am indebted to Gould’s “ Birds of Australia” for my 
notes concerning it. Although ranging widely from east to 
west, the habitat of this species, so far as is yet known, is con- 
fined to the southern parts of Australia. Fresh-water rivers, 
