Order ANSERIF0BME8 
No. 266. 
Family ANATIDM. 
SPATULA CLYPEATA INDIANA. 
EASTERN SHOYELER. 
Spatula clypeata Indiana Mathews, Austral Av. Ree., Vol. I., p. 194, 1913 ; India. 
Spatula clypeata (not Linne) Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 370, 1865 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 200, 1878 ; id.. Tab. List. Austr. Birds, p. 22, 
1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 107, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. II., p. 1043, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 107, 1906 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 36, 1908 ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 238, 1912. 
Spatula clypeata indiana Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 92, 1913. 
Distribution. India; East Asia southward to the Malay Archipelago ; (??) accidental 
in Austraha. 
Adult male. Head and neck glossy green with bluish reflections, becoming brown near 
the base of the bill and black on the centre of the throat and middle of the crown ; 
fore-neck, sides of neck, and short scapulars white ; a narrow line of brown 
feathers down the hind-neck which joins with the mantle and upper back, becoming 
darker on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, all of which are more or 
less glossed wdth green ; lesser upper wdng-coverts and outer scapulars blue-grey ; 
greater coverts dark brown broadly tipped with white, more narrowly on the inner 
ones ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills pale browm darker towards the 
tips of the latter and with white shafts ; outer webs of outer secondaries dark 
metalhc-green, which forms a wing speculum ; innermost secondaries and some of 
the scapulars velvety black broadly centred with white ; tail dark brown becoming 
paler on the outer feathers which are broadly margined with white ; breast, 
sides of the body and abdomen chestnut, shghtly barred with black ; a white 
patch on each side of the rump ; under tail-coverts greenish-black more or less 
mottled with white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white. Bill lead-colour ; 
iris yellow ; feet orange-red. Total length 500 mm. ; culmen 66, wing 232, 
tail 67, tarsus 37. 
Adult female. Distinguished from the adult male chiefly by the absence of the green on 
the head, the white on the fore-neck, the green wing speculum, the ornamental 
scapulars, and the chestnut on the under-surface. 
Immature male. Similar to the female but much darker above with buff margins to 
the feathers, instead of white, a green wing speculum, and the under-surface more 
ochreous-buff. 
Nest. A depression in the ground. 
Eggs. Clutch, ten to twelve ; ground-colour greenish ; axis 52 mm. ; diameter 38. 
GoTJiiD added this species to the Australian List with the following account : 
“ Although I have no Australian skin of this species to confirm the following 
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