THE SCAUP DUCKS. 
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■Pu/i^u/a cristata, Macg. Br. B. v. p. 121 (1852); Dresser, B. 
Eur. vi. p. 573, pi. 437 (1879) ; B. O. U. List Br. B. p. 129 
(1883); Seeb Br. B. iii. p. 583 (1885) ; Saunders, ed. Yarn 
Brit. B. iv. p. 430 (1885); id. Man. Br. B. p. 435 (1889); 
Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B. part xiii. (1890). 
^xhgula fu/tgula, Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 363 
(1895)- 
, Adult Male. — General colour above black, with a slight green- 
gloss, and with faint indications of grey frecklings ; the 
Wing-coverts like the back, including the bastard-wing and 
primary-coverts ; the primaries black externally and at the 
ends of the inner webs, the latter being brown on the outer 
primaries, paler and inclining to white on the inner ones, where 
the light colour extends to the outer web also ; the secondaries 
"’hite, with a black band at the end, the innermost black, 
glossed with green ; tail dusky-brown ; crown of head with a 
tufted crest black, slightly glossed with purple ; sides of face, 
f'sek, and throat black, with a very distinct purple gloss, chang- 
'Ug to green under certain lights; fore-neck dusky-black, 
freckled with whitish bars on the lotver part ; remainder of 
Under surface of body from the fore-neck downwards pure 
''hite, the vent and sides of lower Hanks and under tail-coverts 
black ; the flank-feathers brown at their ends ; under wing- 
uoverts and axillaries white, the lower primary-coverts pale 
ashy like the quill-lining ; “ bill dull leaden to bright greyish- 
olue, the nail and extreme tip black ; feet varying in colour 
'ke the bill, often with an olivaceous tinge on the tarsi ; webs 
Varying from dusky to almost black, and the claws from deep 
Drown to black ; iris golden-yellow ” {A. O. Hume). Total 
Dugth, i4'5 inches; culmen, I'S; wing, 7-9; tail, 2-1; tarsus, 
1’2. 
Adult Female. — Browner than the male, with obscure edges of 
paler brown to the feathers of the mantle ; tvings and tail as 
male, but the former without green gloss ; the head only 
? 'gutly crested, and, like the neck and throat, dark brown, 
uchningto blackish; the fore-neck rusty-brown ; undersurface 
w' 1 fore-neck downwards pure white, mottled 
uh dusky spots on the lower abdomen, vent, and under tail- 
Dverts ; the flanks washed with rusty-brown ; the colours of 
