BIRDS—ANATINAE—MARECA AMERICANA. 
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A specimen of this bird from Illinois, otherwise similar, is entirely without chestnut red on 
the wing. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. | Sex. Locality. When col- Whence obtained. Orig. Colleeted by— Length. | Stretch | Wing. 
No. lected. No. of wings. 
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9790 | G | Rabbit river, Minn .ecceeseseces|eeses coeeeees Gov. Stevens oscccc veces 
9793) |\earsaiee Tiremontsf Lili svese:cesviesee «| June 22,1855 | W. J. Shaw. cscceececees 
5132) ||,.000- Pecos, Texas cess cccvseeececees| May 23,1855 | Capt. Pope sssseccsecones 
9792) |S aiexiein Mimbres to Rio Grande.....ccceleoceeeeceseecs DrdiHEN ry ins sciences eesinsiare 
9794 | GQ | Janos, MeX..cececeeeceeeeeeees| April —, 1855 | Major Emory ....+0-. 000s 
4560 Q San José, Cal... secceccccccees| As J. GraySONecescceecees 
9788 |.sceee Bodega, Cal. wecccccccece Feb. —,1855| Lieut. Trowbridge.. ... 
9796 fot San Francisco, Cal.........000- Mar. —, 1854 | Lieut. Whipple.......... 
9791 | GB | Fort Steilacoom .....eeeeeeeees Feb. —, 1854 | Gov. Stevens......eeeees 
MARECA, Stephens. 
Mareca, Sreruens, Shaw’s Gen. Zool. XIU, 1, 1824, 130. 
Penelope, Kaur, 1829. 
Type Anas penelope, L. 
Cu.—Bill shorter than the head, and equal to the inner toe claw. The sides parallel to near the end, which is rather obtusely 
pointed, the nail occupying the tip, and about one-third as broad as the bill. Bill rather high ; the upper lateral angle at 
the base not prominent, nor extending as far back as the lower edge. Tail pointed ; not half the wings. 
The North American and European species of IMareca have the upper parts finely waved 
transversely with black and gray or reddish brown, the under parts, with the usual exceptions, 
snowy white. The top of the head is uniform white or cream color; the neck more or less 
The 
speculum is green, encircled by black. The tertials are black on the outer web, edged with 
spotted. The middle and greater coverts are white, the latter tipped with black. 
hoary white ; the entire outer web of one of them hoary. The characteristics of the species are 
as follows: 
Head and neck grayish, the feathers of the former thickly spotted, of the latter banded with 
black. Top of head nearly white; a broad and continuous patch of green around and behind 
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Head and neck reddish brown or cinnamon, the feathers of the former slightly spotted with 
dusky, of the latter almost uniformly colored. Top of head cream colored ; only a faint trace 
of green around the eye, and a few spots behind it..........ccccosssssssserescescssrveeeeeee . penelope. 
MARECA AMERICANA, Stephens. 
Baldpate ; American Widgeon. 
Anas americana, Gmeuin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 526.—Laru. Ind. H, 861.—Witson, Am. Orn. VIII, 1814, 86; pl. 
lxix.—Bon. Obs. No. 259.—Avp. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 337; pl. 345.—In. Syn. 1839, 279.— 
Is. Birds Amer. VI, 1843, 259; pl. 389. 
Mareca americana, Sreru. Shaw’s Gen. Zool. XII, 1, 1824, 1835.—Sw. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 445.—Bon. List, 
1838.—Eyron, Mon. Anat. 1838, 116. 
nas (Boschus) americana, Nuttall, Man. II, 1834, 389. 
American widgeon, Penn. II, 567. 
