Status.--The baldpate is reported to be a regular migrant and winter visitant, especially 
along the Pacific Coast, but it is apparently not numerous. 
Description.--Slightly smaller than a mallard, sexes dissimilar, beth with conspicuous 
Description. — 
wnat ere olathe Boi ets prown, head gray with a conspicuous white crown and bright green 
hon eide of head: wing with a large white patch on forepart very noticeable in 
patch on : blackish in contrast to white of 
culum green; upper and lower tail coverts 
eiectataciat eiaceens bill grayish blue with top, base and lower mandible black, iris 
yellowish brown or darker, legs and feet grayish blue, webs darker. 
Adult female.-~Mostly brown; head gray without white crown, wing with less 
conspicuous white area on forepart; under tail coverts and belly white. 
Measurements.—- 
Length, 457.2-558.8 
Wingspread, 762.0—889.0 
Wing, 228.6-279.4 
Tail, 101. 6-114.3 
Tarsus, 330-40.6 
Culmen, 33.0-38.1 
Ye ght.-- 
Male (112), 1 1b. 7 oz. to 2 lbs. 8 oz.; av. 1 1b. 11 oz 
Female (73), 1 1b. 2 oz. to 1 1b. 13 oz.3 av. 1 lb. 9 of. 
General Distribution.—North America from the Yukon and Mackenzie Basins, mainly east of 
the Rockies, to Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes to Lake Winnipeg, south to eastern Oregon, 
British - 
northern Colorado, southern Wisconsin and Indiana. Winters from the coast of 
Columbia, Mississippi Valley, and Atlantic coast from Long Island southward to Costa Rica 
and West Indies. 
Distribution in Guatemala.--Chiefly on waters of the Pacific coast, but also recorded on 
several lakes of the interior. 
Recordgs.--Delta of the ro Samalé, 200, January 31, 1947; near Tahuesco on the delta of 
the Rfo Sis, 170, Jamary 31, 1947; Lake Amatitldn, 7, March 16, 1947. 
In literature it has been recorded from: Duenas, Chiapam, Lake Atitlén, Laguna, 
Acapam, San Gerénimo (Salvin and Godman). 
Habits and Hunting.--See the general discussion on waterfowl. 
14, Spatula clypeata (Linnaeus) 
Shoveler 
Other Names.-- 
Guatemalan: pato cucharén, cucharudo, pato pinto, pato pintado 
English: spoonbill, shoveller, mud duck 
Status.--The shoveller is a fairly common migrant and winter visitant. 
Descrintion.—A medium sized duck, with a very large and flattened, spoon~shaped bill and 
@ blue wing patch. 
Adult male.—~Head and neck fuscous, glossed with green: upperparts mostly fuscous; 
below, lower foreneck and breast white, lower breast and belly bronzy rufous red; post 
abdomen white; upper and under tail coverts dark greenish; wing with lesser wing coverts | 
blue, greater coverts gray tipped with white; bill black, iris yellow, legs and feet orange 
red to red, In flight the blue wing patches are conepicuous;: seen from below the color 
pattern, beginning at the head, is composed of five alternate dark and white areas! dark, 
white, dark, white, dark. 
Adult female.--Brownish, with the characteristic large bill and blue wing patch 
similar to that of the male. 
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