. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . imaries black ; greater covertsforming the speculum, and outer webs of the secondaries glossy goldengreen; upper secondaries chestnut on their outer webs; tertiaries and scapularsblack; bill blood-red, with a knob at the base of the upper mandible; nailblack; bill deep red; irides brown ; legs fleshy red. Length.—23-25 inches ; wing 12 to I35; tail 475 to 5*5 ; tarsus 2 to average 20 to 22 inches in length, and are much duller incolour. Hab.—Sind,
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . imaries black ; greater covertsforming the speculum, and outer webs of the secondaries glossy goldengreen; upper secondaries chestnut on their outer webs; tertiaries and scapularsblack; bill blood-red, with a knob at the base of the upper mandible; nailblack; bill deep red; irides brown ; legs fleshy red. Length.—23-25 inches ; wing 12 to I35; tail 475 to 5*5 ; tarsus 2 to average 20 to 22 inches in length, and are much duller incolour. Hab.—Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, E. Turkestan, Punjab, Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Kutch and Kattiawar Coast. Except in largelakes, the Shelldrake is only found on the sea-coast in the neighbourhood ofthe sea, which is its proper home. Sub-Family, ANATIN^. Hind toe small, not bordered by a membrane; bill even in width throughout,or wider at the tip; lamellas numerous, fine and bristly. Gen. Spatula,—-^^ longer than the head, narrow at the base, broad at the tip, shovel-like ;nail small; lamellae fine and Spatula clypeata. The Shoveller. 223. Spatula clypeata {Linn.), Bodd. Tab. p. E. pp. 971 972;Gould, B. Eiiv. pi. 300 ; Jcid , B. Ind. iii. p. 796 ; Sir. F. \^^; Murray, 182 ANATID^. Hdbh., Zool., ^-c, Sind, p. 235 ; id., Vert. Zool. Sifid, p. 290 ; Hiune andMarsh., Game Birds Ind. p. 141 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 6S2,No. 1386. {Vern., Alipat,^\x\dL^—The Shoveller. Male.—Head and neck all round deep or dark brown with glossy greenreflections; back brown; scapulars and breast white ; rump and upper tailcoverts glossy brown black; sides of the rump white; tail brown, the outerfeathers white, the rest edged with white ; primaries dusky brown, white-shafted ; secondaries the same, their outer webs rich bright green and form-ing the speculum ; lesser wing coverts pale blue ; greater wing coverts duskybrown, tipped with white, forming a ba
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