WILD FOWL 
SCAUP-DUCK 
NYROCA MARILA 
(Plate XXX, Fig. 4) 
Fuligula tnarila, Gould, Birds Europe, v, pi. 371 (1837) ; Dresser, Birds Europe, vi, p. 565, 
pi. 436 (1878) ; Hume & Marshall, Game Birds Ind., iii, p. 271, pi. 36 (1880) ; Lilford, Col. 
Fig. Brit. Birds, part xv, pi. (1890) ; Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvii, p. 355 (1895) ; 
Saunders, III. Man. Brit. Birds, p. 449 (1899). 
DULT male. — Head, neck, mantle, rump, vent, upper and 
under tail-coverts and upper breast black, the crown, 
/ sides of the head and nape glossed with dark green; rest 
f of the back and scapulars white, with narrow wavy black 
i bars; lower breast and belly white; the long flank - 
feathers mottled with light brown or dusky towards the 
tips; wing -coverts blackish, finely vermiculated with white; long inner- 
most secondary quills black glossed on the outer web with dull oil -green; 
outer secondaries white tipped with black; short inner primary quills, 
whitish on the outer web, smoky-brown on the inner web, and tipped with 
blackish; long outer primaries brownish -black, lighter on the inner web; 
axillary plumes white, slightly vermiculated with dusky towards the tips 
of the longest feathers; tail brownish-black. Iris yellow; bill and legs light 
lead -grey; nail on the bill and webs of the toes blackish. Total length about 
18 inches; bill 1*75 inch; wing 9*0 inches; tail 2*3 inches; tarsus 1*55 
inch. 
Adult male in eclipse ^plumage . — Closely resembles the adult female; but 
the wings are darker, as in the adult male with vermiculated coverts and 
dull oil-green inner secondary quills. 
Adult female . — General colour of the head, neck, upperparts and chest 
brown; darker on the back and wings, and shading into blackish on 
the lower back and rump; slightly vermiculated with whitish on the 
mantle; a large oval patch of white on the face at the base of the bill; chin 
also whitish; upper breast, lower belly, and under tail-coverts smoky- 
brown, barred and mottled with white; lower breast and upper part of 
abdomen white; sides and flanks reddish-brown; the wings much like 
those of the male, but browner, the wing-coverts almost uniform dark 
brown, with scarcely a trace of whitish vermiculations, and the long inner 
secondary quills brown, without any oil-green gloss; axillaries pure white; 
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