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FULIGULA MARILA. THE BROAD-BILLED 

 SCAUP-DUCK. 



SCAUP DUCK. SPOON-BILL DUCK. WHITE-FACED DUCK. 



Anas Marila. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 196. 



Anas Marila. Lath. Ind. Ornith. 11. 853. 



Scaup Duck. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Canard Milouin. Anas Marila. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 865. 



Scaup Pochard. Fuligula Marila. Selby, Illust. II. 354. 



Fuligula Marila. Scaup Pochard. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 243. 



Fuligula Marila. Bonap. Comp. List, 58. 



Male twenty inches long, toitli the bill hroad, enlarged 

 toward the end, two inches long, an inch and a tivelfth in 

 breadth, dull light greyish-blue, with the unguis blackish ; 

 feathers of the head short ; the head and upper part of the 

 neck greenish-black ; the rest of the 7ieck, fore part of the 

 back and breast, and hind part of the back, black ; the rest of 

 the back and wing -coverts greyish-white, finely undulated with 

 dusky ; the outer secondaries partly white ; the breast and 

 sides lohite ; hind part of abdomen and loiver tail-coverts 

 dusky ; tail brownish-grey , of fourteen feathers. Female 

 with the head, neck, and fore part of the back and breast, 

 brown ; a broad band of white on the forehead ; tipper parts 

 blackish-brown, in part undulated with whitish ; middle of 

 the breast white ; sides and hind parts dusky br'oivn. Yoting 

 nearly similar to the female. 



Male in Winter. — The Scaup Pochard, a little larger 

 and more robust than the Tufted, is of the same form and 

 proportions, having the body very full and considerably de- 

 pressed, the neck of moderate length, the head large, oblong, 

 compressed, and rounded above. 



The bill is of the same length as the head, about the same 



