“Male in first nuptial dress has less green metallic gloss on head and neck; the black breast-feathers have white margins; the black under tail-coverts are more or less vermiculated; in the vermiculations of the lower mantle, scapulars, and wing-coverts the dark brown predominates over the white.

“Males in molting plumage closely resemble adult females.

“Young in down.—‘Crown, nape, and upper parts uniform dark olive-brown; throat, sides of head, and fore part of neck yellowish white; 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 (Linnæus).
TUFTED DUCK.

Dú-lum-pá-pa, Calayan.

Basilan (Steere Exp.); Calayan (McGregor); Luzon (Heriot, Worcester, McGregor); 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.