Oeder AJfSEKES.] 
EHYNCHASPIS VAEIEGATA. 
(NEW-ZEALAND SHOVELLER.) 
[Eam. ANATID^. 
Spatula rhyncJiotis, Gray, in DiefF. Trav. ii. App. p. 198 (1843). 
Spatula vaiiegata, Gould, P.Z. S. 1856, p. 95. 
Anas rhynchotis, Ellman, Zool. 1861, p. 7471. 
Hhynchaspis variegata, Finsch, J. f. O. 1870, p. 358. 
Spatula variegata, Buller, Birds of New Zealand, 1st ed. p. 252 (1873). 
Native names. 
Tete, Pateke, Putaitai, Kuruwhengi, Kuriiwhengu, Papaunguungu, Kahoho, and Wetawetangu; 
“ Spoon-bill Duck ” of the colonists. 
$ suprk saturate brunneus, teneo nitens, pilei dorsique postici plumis obscure fulvescente marginatis ; Ions et 
mento nigricanti-brunueis : lineS, faciali latd ab oculo anteriore ducta et iufra gulam conjuncta : facie reli- 
qua laterali et nucha sordide cinereis virescente adumbratis; collo postico sordid^ cinereo : interscapulu 
plumis brunneis, late fulvescente marginatis : scapularibus albis, fulvescente lavatis, quibusdam omnino 
brunneis, reliquis *ueo-brunneo fasciatis aut maculatis : tectricibus alarum pulcbre cyaueis, majonbus exte- 
rioribus albo terminatis, fasciam parvam exhibentibus : remigibus mneo-brunneis, mmoribus extus pulcber- 
rime viridibus, secundariis elongatis versus apicem medialiter albis, remigibus dorsalibus extus pulcbre 
cyaueis : supracaudalibus exterioribus Ifete viridibus : caud4 brunne^, rectricibus albido marginatis et termi- 
natis ; gutture imo et collo laterali albis, plumis plus minusve distincte medialiter nigris ; pectore superiore 
oclirascente, plumis ad basin albis et brunneo crescentim transfasciatis : corpore reliquo subtiis^ intense 
ferrugineo, pectore superiore magis distinete, pectore imo et abdomine obscurius nigro notatis : plagg, crissali 
utrinque alb^ nigro paullulum vermiculat^ : subcaudalibus nigris, lateralibus et lougioribus viridibus, qui- 
busdam fulvo transfasciatis et terminatis : subalaribus albis, imis cinerascentibus, marginalibus fulvo macu- 
latis et pallide cyaneo lavatis : rostro nigro ; pedibus aurantiacis : iride Isete flavS,. 
? mari dissimilis, ubique sordidior : supr^ brunneus, uropygio virescente, plumis omnibus late fulvo marginatis : 
facie et collo lateralibus fulvescentibus brunneo striatis, gutture sordide fulvescente : corpore reliquo subtus 
ochrascenti-fulvo, plumis nigro medialiter notatis : tectricibus alarum cyaneis, anguste fulvo marginatis, 
majoribus albo terminatis : remigibus seneo-brunneis, secundariis latiiis fulvo marginatis. 
Adult male. Crown of the head and space surrounding the base of the bill brownish black, edged with grey ; in 
front of each eye a broad crescent of white, meeting and widening on the chin, where it is more or less 
speckled with black j cheeks, sides, and anterior portion of hind neck dark grey, with beautiful green reflexions, 
mixed with steel-blue in certain lights; a streak down the fore neck, and a circular zone bounding the 
grey portion, fulvous white, largely spotted and mottled with brown ; neck below and fore part of breast 
fulvous white, varied with brown, each feather being pure white at the base, then marked with a broad 
crescent of blackisli brown^ and tipped with fulvous ; on the sides of the neck^ towaids the breast, the v ite 
is very conspicuous, but higher up, and on the hind neck, it diminishes, till at length the dark coloui pre o 
minates, each feather being blackish brown, with a lunate spot of white in the centic, and tipped with u voi s. 
The plumage of the upper surface is very beautiful, the whole of the back and rump bein^ blacki& ^ ^ 
edged with pale brown, and glossed with green, while the scapulars, which are of a peculiai elongate 
are marked and varied in a very effective manner; some of the inferior scapulars aie white, spotte an 
