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allen’s naturatjst’s library. 
Rhynchaspis clypeata, Macg. Br. B. v. p. 74 (1852). 
Spatula clypeata, Dresser, B, Eur. vi. p. 497, pi. 425 (1873); 
B. O. U. List Br. B. p. 128 (1883) ; Saunders, ed. Yarr. 
Br. B. iv. p. 375 (1885) ; id. Man. Br. B. p. 415 (1889) ; 
Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 306 (1895). 
(Plate L V/1.) 
Adult Male. — General colour above blackish-brown on the 
mantle and upper back, becoming deep black on the lower 
back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, the lateral series of the 
latter glossed with steel-blue, of which there is also a faint 
gloss on the black rump ; scapulars white, the long feathers 
greyish-blue, with a good deal of black towards the base of 
the inner web and a broad streak of white on the inner side of 
the shaft ; wing-coverts greyish-blue, the greater series dusky 
internally, blue externally, and somewhat broadly tipped with 
white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primary-quills black- 
ish, the latter paler brown on the inner web, with white 
shafts ; the secondaries brown, externally metallic steel-green, 
changing to purple under certain lights ; the long inner secon- 
daries externally velvety-black, with white centres towards the 
end of the shafts ; centre tail-feathers black, the rest white, 
mottled and marbled with ashy-brown, the bars nowhere com- 
plete, and varying in shape ; crown of head and lores dusky- 
black, without any metallic gloss ; the sides of the face, neck, 
and throat black, glossed with green, and especially with 
purple on the hinder neck and crest ; fore-neck and chest 
white, extending on to the sides of the chest, and nenrly reach- 
ing in a collar round the hind-neck, in the centre of which are 
a few blackish feathers : remainder of under surface from the 
chest downwards vinous-chestnut, with a large white patch 
on each side of the vent ; the flank-feathers paler buff at their 
ends, freckled with dusky, some of the feathers on the lower 
flanks freckled with dusky lines; under tail-coverts black, 
white at base with a few blackish wavy lines ; the lateral 
under tail-coverts glossed with green or purple ; axillaries and 
under wing-coverts white ; lower under wing-coverts and quill- 
lining ashy-grey; bill lead-colour; feet reddish orange ; iris 
yellow. Total length, ig inches; culmen, 2-55; wing, 9-5; 
tail, 3-3; tarsus, i'3. 
