MABILA. 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.)" (Salvadori.) 



165. MARILA FULIGULA (Linnaeus). 

 TUFTED DTTCK. 



Anas fuligula LINN^US, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 128. 



Fuligula fuligula SALVADORI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1895), 27, 363; SHARPE, 



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



MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 39. 

 Nyroca fuligula BLANFORD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 463; fig. 121 



(head). 



Du-lum-pd-pa, Calayan. 



Basilan (Steere Exp.) ; 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, 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 

 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. 



