﻿THE OCCURRENCE OF BLYTH'S WATTLED LAPWING AND 

 THE SCAUP DUCK IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



Br Richard C. McGregor. 



Through the interest of Dr. Leon Guerrero, a Filipino naturalist resid- 

 ing in Manila, the Bureau of Science has aquired a perfect specimen of 

 Blvth's wattled lapwing. Microsarcops cinereus (Birth). 1 which repre- 

 sents a subfamily of birds not previously known to occur in these Islands. 

 Sharpe gives the range of this species as "From Corea and the southern 

 Japanese islands to Mongolia and northern China, wintering in southern 

 China, the Indo-Burmese countries, and northeastern Bengal." The 

 species may prove to be a regular winter visitant to the Phdippines. 



The present specimen, a male in young winter plumage, was taken 

 January 20. 1906, near Malabon, a short distance from Manila. The 

 specimen is about 12.3 inches in length: wing. 9: tail. 4: tarsus. 2.9: 

 culmen, 1.5. This bird resembles a large plover, but is distinguished by 

 having a small hind toe. a short and blunt wing spur, and a small, fleshy 

 wattle or lappet between the eye and base of bill. The plumage may be 

 described as follows : 



F/pper parts, brown with a slight gloss, the feathers with dusky shafts : 

 forehead and neck a trifle lighter and grayer; upper tail coverts and 

 tail, white, rectrices with a subterminal blackish band which is widest 

 on central pair and absent from outermost pair ; chin whitish : throat 

 and sides of head and neck, light brown with whitish streaks: breast 

 brown, rest of under parts, white: wing coverts, brown like the back but 

 a little paler, median coverts with narrow, white tips, except the outer 

 ones which are pure white: greater coverts, nearly entirely white, with 

 brown at extreme base, increasing in extent on inner ones ; alula dark 

 brown; primary-coverts and quills, black: secondaries, white, the inner 

 one externally light brown and the innermost brown like the black. 

 " 'Basal two-thirds of bill deep yellow, the terminal third black ; feet 

 dull yellow, claws black : edges of eyelids and lappets deep yellow' [E. IF. 

 Oates)." 



Through the courtesy of Mr. W. Parsons, of Manila, I am permitted 

 to record the capture of a male scaup duck. Fuligula mania (Linn.).- at 

 Tanay. Laguna de Bay, Luzon, in November, 1906. This species is 

 unrecorded from the Philippines, although found as a winter visitant in 

 China and Japan: it has also been recorded from the Liu Kiu Islands. 3 



1 Sharpe: Cat. Bds. (1896), 24, 133. 

 'Salvadori: Cat. Bds. (1895), 27, 355. 

 Stejneger: Proc. V. S. Nat. Mux.. Wash. (1887), 10. 415. 



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