MARILA. 199 



a dull grayish band crosses lower neck, rest of under parts dull yellowish, 

 flanks grayish yellow; upper mandible blackish, tooth of l)eak yellowish; 

 under mandible yellow." (Dresser.)^' (Salvadori.) 



Kio. MARILA FULIGULA (Liniiirus). 

 TUFTED DUCK. 



Anas fuligula LlXN.EUS. Syst. Xat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 128. 



FuUgula fuligula Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. { 1895), 27, 3G3; Sharpe, 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 223; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 183; 



McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 39. 

 yyroca fuligula Blaxford, Fauna Brit. Lul. Bds. (1898). 4, 4()3: lig. 121 



( head ) . 



Du-lum-pd-pa, Calayan. 



Basilan (Hteere Exp.) ; Calayan {McGregor) ; Luzon (Heriot, Worcester, Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Palawan (White). Xorthern Asia; northern Europe ; in winter to Greater 

 Sunda, Marianne, and Pelew Islands; Mediterranean Sea; Abyssinia; northern 

 Indian Peninsula ; southern China. 



"Adult male. — Head, neck, upper parts, and breast black; occipital 

 feathers considerably elongated, forming a crest or tuft ; sides of head 

 with a purple gloss; a white spot on the chin; back and scapulars with 

 obscure traces of pale vermicvdations ; lower breast, belly, sides, and 

 flanks white; vent and under tail-coverts black; wings black; speculum 

 on the secondaries white, with a black band at the tip; under wing- 

 coverts, except the marginal ones which are dusky, and axillars white, 

 primaries brown-gray, with the tips and the outer webs more or less 

 blackish ; tail black. Bill pale blue, with the nail black ; iris brilliant 

 golden yellow; legs and toes dark blue, the webs black. Length, about 

 433 ; wing, 803 ; tail, 63 ; culmen, 44 ; tarsus, 28. 



"Female. — Crest smaller than in the male; upper parts and upper 

 breast brown; under parts dull white or pale ashy brown, and less clearly 

 defined from the brown upper breast; flanks brown; speculum as in the 

 male; inner secondaries glossed with green. 



"Young in first plumage. — Closely resemble adult females, but paler 

 brown, especially on chin and throat; no metallic green gloss on the 

 innermost secondaries ; many white feathers at base of bill. 



"Males in first nuptial dress have white margins to the black feathers 

 of the breast, a shorter crest, no green or p^^rple gloss on the head, and 

 a small white spot on the chin. 



'■ 'Males in molting plumage are intermediate in color between males 

 in Ih-st plumage and males in first nuptial plumage. 



"'Young in doirn are dark brown, shading into nearly white on the 

 belly.' {Seebohnt.)'^ {Salvadori.) 



The tufted duck visits the Philippine Islands during the winter months 

 and at times nuiy be found in large numbers; from Laguna de Bay, 

 many live ducks are brought to the Manila markets, the present species 

 ranking next in numbers to the common Dendrocygna arcuata. 



