234 INDIAN DUCKS. 



(39) FULIGULA MARILA. 

 THE SCAUP. 



Fuligula marila, Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 814 ; Hume, Str. Feath. viii, p. 115 ; 



ibid. Cat. no, 070 ; Hume ^~ Mar. Game-B. iii, p. 272 ; Hume, St)\ Feath. 



X, pp. 158, 174 ; Stoker, ibid, p, 424 ; Barnes, B. of Bom. p. 413 ; 



Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xxvii, p. 355 ; Oates, Game-B. ii, p. 337. 

 Nyroca marila, Blanford, Fauna B. I. iv, p. 462 ; Wall, Jour. B. N. H. S. 



xvi, p. 307. 



Description. Adult male. — " Head, neck, upper part of the breast and of 

 the back black ; sides of the head and upper neck glossed with green ; rest 

 of the back and scapulars white, narrowly barred with black ; rump, upper and 

 under tail-coverts black ; lower breast, abdotnen, and sides white ; the vent 

 somewhat greyish ; the sides with black barrings ; upper wing-coverts blackish, 

 finely vermiculated with white ; secondaries white, forming the speculum, which 

 is bounded below by a blackish band, in some specimens more or less freckled 

 with white ; tertials blackish with a green gloss, the larger ones more or less 

 finely dusted with whitish ; primaries greyish-brown, from the fourth quill with 

 a whitish area on the inner web, the tips black ; the marginal under wing-coverts 

 greyish-brown, dusted with white, the remainder, as well as the axillaries, white ; 

 tail blackish : bill and legs light lead-grey, webs and nail of the bill blackish ; 

 iris yellow. Total length about 18 inches, wing 9*25, tail 2-9, culmen 1-8, 

 tarsus 1'4." {Salvadori.) 



Male, — " Length 20-0 inches, expanse 32-0, wing 9*0, tail fx'om insertion of 

 feathers 2-75, tarsus 1*42, bill along ridge 2'0. The bill is light greyish-blue 

 or dull lead-colour, with the nail blackish ; the iris rich yellow ; the edges of the 

 eyelids dusky ; the feet pale greyish-blue, darker on the joints ; the membrane 

 dusky ; the claws black." {Macgillivray.) 



Adult female. — " Forehead, lores, and more or less of the chin white, en- 

 circling the base of the bill ; rest of head, neck, upper back, and upper breast 

 brown, the last mixed with white and passing into the white of the abdomen, not 

 sharply defined as in the male ; back and scapulars vermiculated brown and 

 white, flanks the same but with more white ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail 

 dusky brown ; wings as in the male but duller and browner." (Blanford.) 



"Length 18"0 inches, expanse 28'0, wing 8*75, tail 2*5, tarsus 1'33, bill 

 along ridge 1"83. 



"Bill as in the male, but darker; the feet dull leaden-grey, with the webs 

 duskv." (Macgillivrai/.) 



" Young male has the white at the base of the bill like tlie adult female, but 

 it is of a darker and richer colour." (Salvadori.) 



