l6 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY 



is the most usual full clutch, but I have found ten, twelve, 

 fifteen, and even twenty eggs in a nest. The last-mentioned 

 was, I believe, the produce of two females." The colour varies 

 from drab-brown or stone-colour to greenish-brown. Axis, 

 2*2-2 '4 inches ; diam., i-6-i7. 



Down. — Very small, and dark chocolate-brown, with a scarcely 

 perceptible whitish centre, the filamental tips being also brown. 



IL THE SCAUP DUCK. FULIGULA MARILA. 



Anas marila^ Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 196 (1766). 



Fidigula jnarila, Macg. Br. B. v. p. 1 16 (1852) ; Dresser, B. Eur. 



vi. p. 565, pi. 436 (1878); B. O. U. List Br. B. p. 129 



(1883); Seebohm, Br. B. iii. p. 579 (1885) ; Saunders, ed. 



Yarn Br. B. iv. p. 423 (1885); id. Man. Br. B. p. 437 



(1889); Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B. part xv. (1890); Salvad. 



Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 356 (1895). 



[Plate LIX.) 



Adult Male. — Back light grey or white, pencilled with blackish 



vermiculations, less continuous on the upper scapulars, which 



in consequence look whiter than the rest of the back ; the 



lower back black with a few whitish vermiculations ; rump 



and upper tail-coverts black, with a large white patch on both 



sides ; tail sooty-brown ; wing-coverts black, finely pencilled 



with greyish or white vermiculations, which are less plentiful 



on the greater series and only appear at the ends of the latter ; 



bastard-wing and primary-coverts dusky-blackish, the primaries 



dull ashy externally, and blackish at the end of the inner webs, 



which are for the rest drab-brown, forming a distinct " mirror " , 



the secondaries white with a broad black band at the end, the 



innermost black, glossed with oily-green ; head, sides of face, 



and throat glossy dark green, changing to purple, according 



to the light in which the bird is held ; hind- neck and upper 



mantle, sides of neck, fore-neck, and chest black with a bronzy 



gloss ; the rest of the under surface of body white, from the 



chest downwards, with a few blackish vermiculations near the 



black chest-patch, and again on the lower abdomen ; vent and 



under tail-coverts black ; sides of body, under wing-coverts, 



and axillaries pure white, the outer coverts dusky, freckled with 



grey, theJower primary-coverts pale ashy like the quill-lining j 



