MARILA. 197 



"Adult male. — Head and upper part of neck dark glossy green; lower 

 neck, breast, and anterior scapulars white; middle of back dark brown, 

 the feathers with pale edges; rump and upper tail-coverts black glossed 

 with green; lower breast and abdomen rich chestnut; flanks, vent, and 

 thighs paler, freckled with brown ; under tail-coverts black, glossed with 

 green; a white patch on the lower flanks at the base of the tail; upper 

 wing-coverts and the outer web of two of the longer scapulars pale blue; 

 remainder of the scapulars black, all with a broad silk}' white stripe 

 along the middle; last row of wing-coverts tipped with white, forming a 

 band, which borders anteriorly the glossy green wing-speculum; tip of 

 the secondaries and the primaries brown ; under wing-coverts and axillars 

 white; tail mostly white, freckled with brown-gray, central feathers brown, 

 edged with white. Iris yellow; bill lead-color; feet reddish orange. 

 Length, about 508; wing, 260; tail, 95; culmen, ?0; tarsus, 35. 



^'Female. — Upper parts brown, each feather with a broad reddish 

 margin; throat reddish immaculate; feathers of back and scapulars with 

 reddish bars, more or less crescentic; under parts reddish buff, each 

 feather brown in the central part, especially those of breast and flanks; 

 under tail-coverts lighter; wings resemble those of the male, except that 

 tlie blue on the wing-coverts is very dull and the speculum not so glossy ; 

 tail-feathers whitish, with brown marks. Beak olive-brown, base of the 

 maxilla and the entire mandible orange ; iris hazel-brown ; feet dull orange. 



"Male in first plumage resembles the female, but the wings are brighter 

 colored. Bill pale reddish brown; legs and feet flesh-color. 



"Males in their first nuptial plumage have the white of the breast with 

 a few dark crescentic bands, the lower belly with dark bars, and the rich 

 black of the under tail-coverts mottled with chestnut and white. 



"Adult male in molting plumage may be distinguished from the adult 

 female by the greater brilliancy of the blue and metallic green on the 

 wing, the plain dark upper tail-coverts, and the general darker color of 

 the entire plumage; the crown is dark brown. 



"Young in down resemble those of the wigeon in having the upper 

 parts almost uniform, with indistinct pale spots, but they possess the 

 dark brown stripe through the eye as in the young mallard. The bill 

 is not widened at the tip, but it grows very rapidly." (Salvadori.) 



This duck may be recognized in any plumage by the shape of its bill. 



Subfamily MARILIN.^. 

 Genus MAKILA Oken, 1817. 



The members of this subfamily and genus differ from all other Philip- 

 pine ducks in having a tuft of long feathers springing from the crown; 

 the bill also is characteristic being short and wide and slightly wider at 

 tij) than at l)ase. 



