BIRDS—FULIGULINAE—FULIX AFFINIS. G91. 
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* FULIX MARILA, Baird. 
Big Black-head; Scaup Duck. 
“Anas marila, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 196—Gm. I, 1788, 509.—Wixson, Am. Orn. VIII, 1814, 84; pl. Ixix. 
Fuligula marila, Srern. Shaw’s Gen. Zool. Birds XII, u, fsa, 198—?Sw. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 456.—Bown. List, 
1838.—Avp. Birds Am. VII, 1843, 355 ; pl. 498.—Grraup, Birds L. Island, 1844, 321. (marila.) 
Eyron, Mon. Anat. 156. 
Aythya marila, Bon. List Birds Europe, 1842. 
© Anas frenata, SPARRMANN, Mus. Carlos. 1786.’? (IFemale.) 
Marila frenata, Bonar. Comptes Rendus, XLIII, Sept. 1856. 
‘uligula gesneri, (WiLx.) Jarpine, Brit. Birds, 1V, 138; pl. v. 
Scaup duck, Pennant, Laruam. 
Broad-bill ; Blue-bill ; Shuffler ; Vuieo. 
Se. Cu.—Head and neck all round, jugulum and shoulders, lower part of back, tail, and coverts black ; the head with a gloss 
of dark green on the sides. Rest of under parts white ; feathers on the lower part of belly and on the sides, the long feathers 
of the flanks, the interscapulum, and the scapulars, white, waved in zigzag transversely with black. Greater and middle wing 
coverts similarly marked, but more finely and obscurely. Greater coverts towards the tip, and the tertials, greenish black ; the 
speculum is white, bordered behind by greenish black ; the white extending across the whole central portion of the secondaries . 
Outer primaries and tips of all brownish black; inner ones pale gray ; the central line dusky. Axillars and middle of the 
inferior surface of the wing white. Bill blue ; the nail black. Legs plumbeous. 
Female with the head brown; the region all round the base of the bill white ; the undulations of black and white on the 
feathers wanting, or but faintly indicated above. Length, 20; wing, 9; tarsus, 1.58; commissure, 2.16. 
Hab.—Whole of North America and Europe. 
Last of specimens. 
Catal. | Sex. Loeality. When col- Whence obtained. Orig’! Collected by— Length. | Stretch | Wing. 
No. lected. No. lof wings. 
2521 Q Carlisle, Pa. ..-.-csccces seeeees Oct. 16,1845] S. F. Baird........ ee aees 
1193 foi BOLOMACITIVEN ss as cecisicviclaiee'e vies Dec. —,1843}...... COs seein icieicereaies cere 
6889 rot Selkirk Settlement, Red river...|..cceccseeeves D. Gunn...... eee eeee 
S136 | sccceces INGIAN Ola seicieiceioe’ssivnis cesiseees Feb. 20,1855 | Capt. Pope ......cccceees 6 
DSB 7p |ieniersleie's San Diego, Cal......+0+6 sisvemrer |leeverateceras wale aera Lieut. Trowbridge.......Jeerees Ac Cassidy. sceiiessoiccss|ececivees|oeveneceleceesace 
9863 |. ..eeees San Francisco. ......e0e0 00 see] ecee cece ceceee Lieut. Williamson....sss.|eveees Dr. Heermann........+ seceee: loves ceceleces cece 
DE6G | eeereeee Bodega, Cal.......... « —, 1855} Lieut. Trowbridge.....essleceess T. A. Szabo. ccccccvecslecesvceclecevcces|rccesece 
9865 fot Fort Steilacoom,..... - 20,1854 | Gov. Stevens.........00. 20 | Dr. Suckley .cccccecses[ees seseleveecces|eoeereee 
9549 | eeseveee Simiahmoo bay......eceeeeees BP Scnned A. Campbell. -.cesecesess[eceess Dr. Rennerly. ..ccccces|socwee: [eccccecs|eccecces 
FULIX AFFINIS, Baird. 
Little Black-ehead; Blue-bill. 
Anas marila, Forsrer, Phil. Trans. LXII, 1772, No. 44. (Not of Linn.) 
Fuligula marila, Aup. Orn. Biog. III, 1835, 226: V, 1839, 614 ; pl. 229.—Is. Syn. 286.—Is. Birds Amer. VI, 1843, 
316; pl. 397. (Not of Stephens.) 
Fuligula affinis, Eyton, Mon. Anat. 1838, 157. (N. Am. sp.)—Gossr, Birds Jamaica, 1847. 
Marila affinis, Bon. Comptes Rendus, XLIII, Sept. 1856. 
Fuligula mariloides, Vicors, Zool. Blossom, 1839, 31. (N. Am.) (Not of Yarrell, Brit. Birds.) 
Fuligula minor, Giravup, Birds L. Island, 1844, 323. : 
Sp. Cu.—Bill blue ; the nail black. Head, neck, fore part of breast, and back anterior to the shoulder, lower part of back, 
tailand its coverts, black; the head with violet purple reflections changing occasionally togreen. The belly and sides, with axillars, 
and central portion of inner surfaces of wings, pure white. The lower part of the belly, near the anus, undulated finely with black 
spots, The interscapular region and scapulars white, with transverse zigzag bands or lines of black, these lines much further apart 
in the seapulars, which, consequently, are whiter. Wings blackish ; the lesser and middle coverts sprinkled with grayish. The 
