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GENUS V. MARECA. WIGEON. 



Bill considerably shorter than the head, higher than 

 broad at the base, gradually depressed and narroAved toward 

 the end ; upper mandible with the frontal angles very short 

 and obtuse, the ridge broad and flattened at the base, the 

 sides convex, erect at the base, the unguis rather large, 

 obovate, decurved at the end, the extremities of the nume- 

 rous lamellse projecting a little about the middle of the bill ; 

 legs very short, and the other characters as in Querquedula. 



1. Mareca Penelope. European Wigeon. Bill pale blue, 

 with the tip black ; upper part of head reddish-white ; cheeks 

 and upper neck brownish-red, dotted with black ; fore part 

 and sides of the neck light vinaceous ; upper parts and sides 

 of the body finely barred with white and dark grey ; wings 

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

 anterior and a posterior band of black. 



