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MARECA PENELOPE. THE EUROPEAN WIGEON- 



COMMON WIGEON. WHEW DUCK. PANDLE-WHEW. YELLOW-POLL. 

 RED-HEADED WIGEON. BALDPATE. WHEWER. WHIM. 



Fig. 65. 



Anas Penelope. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 202. 



Anas Penelope. Lath. Ind. Om. II. 860. 



Wigeon. Mont. Om. Diet, and Supplt. 



Canard siffleur. Anas Penelope. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 840. 



Common Wigeon. Mareca Penelope. Selby, Illustr. II. 324. 



Mareca Penelope. Wigeon. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 236. 



Mareca Penelope. Bonap. Comp. List, 56. 



Male with a longitudinal ridge of rather elongated decurved 

 feathers on the head and nape ; hill pale blue, with the tip 

 black ; upper part of the head reddish-white ; cheeks and 

 upper-neck brownish-red, dotted with black ; a longitudinal 

 band of the latter on the throat ; fore part and sides of the 

 lower-neck light vinaceous ; upper part and sides below the 

 wings finely barred with white and dark grey ; wings grey, 

 with a large patch of white ; the speculum green, with an 

 anterior and a posterior band of black ; inner secondaries 

 white, grey, and black ; tail grey ; upper tail-coverts partly 

 black ; breast and abdomen white ; feathers under the tail 

 black. 



