314 DUCK. 



on each side, near the end ; plumage in general as in the Blue- 

 winged Shoveler, but darker, and without the white crescent behind 

 the eye; wing coverts pale blue ; speculum white; below this the 

 feathers have a gloss of green ; vent black, and contiguous thereto 

 mottled only with black; legs pale flesh-colour; in some birds the 

 chin is bluish white. The female differs in not having the vent 

 black ; but in other points both sexes agree. 



Inhabits New-Holland. One shot at Botany Bay, in May, 

 appears to agree in so many things with the Common Shoveler, that 

 it might easily be taken for a Variety of that bird. 



77— JAMAICA SHOVELER. 



Anas Jainaicensis, Ind. Orn, ii. 857. Gin. Lin. i. 519. 

 Teal of Guiana, Hist. Guian. p. 170 ? 

 Jamaica Shoveler, Gen. Syn. vi. 513. 



SIZE of the Buffel-headed Duck ; length sixteen inches. Bill one 

 inch and three quarters ; in shape very broad, and turns up a little 

 at the end; upper mandible blue, but the place of the nostrils, the 

 sides, and all the under mandible orange; eyes placed high up in 

 the head ; irides brown ; top of the head, taking in the eyes, black ; 

 sides, beneath the chin, and throat, white, mixed with blackish 

 spots; upper part of the neck brown ; the lower all round, breast and 

 belly, barred dusky, and deep ferruginous, inclining to saffron-colour; 

 lower part of the belly, vent, and rump, barred dusky and dirty 

 rufous white; under tail coverts dirty white; back and scapulars 

 brown, a little marked with minute, yellowish dots ; wings and tail 

 plain dusky brown, the last cuneiform in shape, and rather Jong; 

 legs orange. 



This appears to be a distinct species. I received it with other 

 birds from Jamaica, where it first appears in October, or November, 

 and staying till March, retires north with several other species. 



