Class II. W I G E O N. 601 



Anas rufa roftro pedibufque cinereis. Faun, Suec, fp. 47. 285. Ferru- 



C1NOUS. 



npHE defcription of this fpecies was fen t to us Descrip, 

 -*- by Mr. Bolton. The weight was twenty oun- 

 ces : the bill is long and flatted, rounded a little 

 at the bafe, ferrated along the edges of each man- 

 dible, and furnifhed with a nail at the end of the 

 upper. The color a pale blue. The head, neck, 

 and whole upper part of the bird is of an agreea- 

 ble reddifh brown : the throat, bread and belly of 

 the fame color, but paler : the legs of a pale blue ; 

 but the webs of the feet black. 



This fpecies, he informed us, was killed in Lin- 

 colnjhire. We do not find it mentioned by any wri- 

 ter, except Linnaeus, who toke his defcription from 

 Rudbeck's paintings \ and adds, that it is found, 

 though rarely, in the Swedijh rivers, 



Anas fiftularis (ein Pfeifente) Anas fiftularis, le Canard fif- 286. Wig eon 



Gefner a<v 121. fleur. Briffon a<v. VI. 391. 



Penelope. Aldr. av. III. 92. tab. 35. fig. 2. 



Wigeon, or Whewer. Wil. Ei/Tent mit vveiiTer platten. 



orn. 375. Kram. 342. 



Rati fyrt. av. 146. Dam's Bles-And. Brunnich, 



Anas penelops. Lin. fyjl. 72. 



202. Br. Zool. 157. add. plates. 



Wriand. Faun. Suec. ft. 124. 



^y>HE wigeon weighs near twenty-three oun- Descrip. 

 s twenty inches ; the breadth 

 R r 4 two 



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•*• ces : the length is twenty inches ; the breadth 



