830 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



Genus MABECA, Stephens. 



WIGEON. 



Mareca peneloj)e (Linnccus). S.N., i., p. 202 

 (1766). 



Pandle. 



Daring the winter the Wigeon is to be found along 

 the sea-coast and estuaries of Kent, especially in very 

 severe weather, but there are very few good feeding 

 grounds for this bird on this coast, compared with those 

 on the "West of England, where the Wigeon is found in 

 large numbers. They are sometimes found on the inland 

 lakes. 



Boys adds this species to the Birds of Sandioich, 1792. 

 The Eev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, in 1841, says it is 

 " common in Komney Marsh." 



Mr. J, Gould, writing in 1873, says : " That some 

 W^igeons arrive on the south coast of England from their 

 northern breeding quarters as early as the month of 

 September I can affirm, since, while on a visit to A. J. B. 

 Beresford Hope, Esq., at Bedgebury Park, Kent, the 

 keeper brought in, on the 28th of that month, as nonde- 

 script birds, two which he had just shot, and which 

 proved to be young Wigeon of the year." 



A specimen in the Maidstone Museum was shot by 

 Mr. H. Kennard, at Linton, February 13, 1889. Mr. G. 

 Dowker records it in the Stourmouth district. 



