118 FULIGULA MARILA. 



humerals ; the primaries narrow, tapering, decurved, the first 

 longest, the second scarcely shorter, the rest rapidly gradu- 

 ated ; the secondaries tapering. The tail is very small, much 

 rounded, of fourteen moderately firm rather pointed feathers, 

 of which the medial are nine-twelfths longer than the lateral. 



The bill is light greyish -blue, or dull lead-colour, with the 

 unguis blackish. The iris rich yellow ; the edges of the eye- 

 lids dusky. The feet pale greyish-blue, darker on the joints ; 

 the membranes dusky ; the claws black. The head and upper 

 half of the neck black, strongly glossed with green and 

 purple ; the rest of the neck and part of the back and breast 

 black, toward the margin of which colour on the breast some 

 of the feathers are terminally edged with greyish-white ; the 

 hind part of the back brownish-black ; the tail greyish-brown. 

 The middle of the back, the scapulars, and wing-coverts, 

 white, transversely undulated with dusky lines, which are 

 broader on the hind part of the scapulars, three of the larger 

 of which, however, are dusky, glossed with green ; the primary 

 coverts blackish-brown ; the primaries partly greyish-brown, 

 but from the fourth primary to the tenth secondary is a broad 

 white band, including the whole length of three quills except 

 the tips ; the inner secondaries and the ends of the rest 

 blackish-green, the inner three dotted with white. The 

 breast and sides are white ; the abdominal region anteriorly 

 greyish-white, undulated with dusky brown, that colour 

 increasing, so that the feathers under the tail are brownish- 

 black ; the axillars and middle lower wing-coverts white, the 

 rest grey or dotted with that colour. 



Length to end of tail 20 inches ; extent of wings o2 ; 

 bill along the ridge 2 ; from the frontal angle 2yV ; along the 

 edge of lower mandible 2^ ; its greatest breadth 1-^^ ; wing 

 from flexure 9; tail 2|; tarsus 1^; first toe ^, its claw 

 ^ ; second toe -LL, its claw -^ ; third toe 2^, its claw yf ; 

 fourth toe 2y%, its claw -j-^^. 



Female. — The female has the bill coloured as in the male, 

 but darker ; the feet dull leaden-grey, with the webs dusky ; 

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

 brown, darker on the head, tinged with red on the fore-neck. 



