MARILA. 199 
a dull grayish band crosses lower neck, rest of under parts dull yellowish, 
flanks grayish yellow; upper mandible blackish, tooth of beak yellowish ; 
under mandible yellow.’ (Dresser.)” (Salvadorv.) 
165. MARILA FULIGULA (Linneus). 
TUFTED DUCK, 
Anas fuligula LINN2ZUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 128. 
Fuligula fuligula SALvaport, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1895), 27, 363; SHARPE, 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 223; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 183; 
McGrecor and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 39. 
Nyroca fuligula BLANForD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 463; fig. 121 
(head). 
Di-lum-pda-pa, Calayan. 
Basilan (Steere Hap.); Calayan (McGregor) ; Luzon (Heriot, Worcester, Mc- 
Gregor) ; Palawan (White). Northern 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 vermiculations; lower breast,ebelly, 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 brillant 
golden yellow; legs and toes dark blue, the webs black. Length, about 
432; wing, 203; 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 purple gloss on the head, and 
a small white spot on the chin. 
““Males in molting plumage are intermediate in color between males 
in first plumage and males in first nuptial plumage. 
““Young in down are dark brown, shading into nearly white on the 
belly.” (Seebohm.)” (Salvadori.) 
The tufted duck visits the Philippine Islands during the winter months 
and at times may 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. 
