784 U 8. P. R. R. EXP, AND SURVEYS—ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
Sp. Cu.—Male. Tail of 14 feathers. Bill blue, the extreme base and tip black. Head and neck pale buff, or faint 
reddish yellow, each feather banded narrowly with blackish, so as to give the appearance of spots. The top of the head from 
the bill is pale unspotted creamy white ; the sides of the head from around the eye to the nape, glossy green, the feathers 
however, with hidden spots, as described; chin uniform dusky. Forepart of breast and sides of body light brownish o 
chocolate red, each feather with obsolete grayish edge ; rest of under parts pure white ; the crissuin abruptly black. The 
back, scapulars, and rump, finely waved transversely anteriorly with reddish and gray, posteriorly with purer gray, on a brown 
ground; a little of the same waving also on the sides. The lesser wing coverts are plain gray ; the middle and greater are 
conspicuously white, the latter terminated by black, succeeded by a speculum, which is grass green at the base, and then 
velvet black. The tertials are black on the outer web, bordered narrowly by black, the outermost one hoary gray, externally 
edged with black. The tail is hoary brown. The upper coverts are black externally. The axillars are white. 
The female has the head and neck somewhat similar, but spotted to the bill. Wings as in the male. The black of 
tertials replaced by brown ; the gray of the lesser coverts extending slightly over the middle ones. Back and scapulars with 
rather broad and distant transverse bars of reddish white, each feather with two or three, interrupted along the shafts. These 
are much wider and more distant than in the male. Length, 21.75; wing, 11; tarsus ] 42 ; commissure, 1.80. 
Hab.—Continent of North America. Accidental in Europe. 
The blackish chin appears to be found only in very highly plumaged birds. The top of 
the head is sometimes pure white. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. lsex and | Locality. Whencol- | Whence obtained. | Orig.| Oollected by— | Length. | Stretch| Wing. Remarks. 
No. | age. | lected. | No. | of wings. 
| ae a —— 
1310 3 ) Carlisle, Pa.... seess Mar. 2451844) SAB. Baird. cicciccce| ce'ceess'|eacvececcs oe cciesinis 
Gaal a llsses. don eee April 28, 1843 |...... donnen tee: IIRedee ee een eae 
a6 | OQ | Beer dO: , ssaaveorecees April 10,1841 ...... doe ss. see! Iesdectal eace eee eidaeessten 
6895 | rei Nelson river, Hi, BoT'.:.|\c0c.cccsseleee D. Gunn....... John Isbister 
5781 OG | Platte river, K. T...... July 11,1856 Lieut. Bryan... W.S8. Wood 
5133 | 6G, Head of Delaware creek,| Mar. 24,1856 Capt. Pope ....eee.| 186 | ceeeeeeeseeee ees 21.00 | 24.50} 11.25 | Bill blue; tip dark; 
| N. M. j | eyes dark brown; 
| | | feet gray. 
5453 |...00se. | Near Bijoux Hills......) Oct. 14,1856 Lieut. Warren..... |eseees Dr. Hayden...... | 
9713} | El Paso, Texas ....seee]sseeeeeereuee Maj. Emory ....... | saecda Medel Glarkectaciecates|(<civeqeat | 
9704 |... ees | Mimbres to Rio Grande.|.......++ evees| Dr. Henry...s. eee | scene eece seer sencee cece | sere veee 
O705iaeecice es Western: Lexas:. scenic cewisistericee see Capt. Pope ....... love = 
9706 |. ceccece | Boca Grande, Mexico ..| Mar. —,1855 Maj Emory...... | 
O715/ eee ees | San Diego, Cal... tl baesereeanes Pits Rrawbridge!snclesssce| se -eeo cess tiesesiod| ess 
9717 |. Bodega, Cal. ....0.se+.| Dec. —-1854 ...... dovcessestoer |\salrees 
9716 |. |) POrt'Steilacoomi<s-ecis: || ces cece scesee Gov. Stevens...... Weegee Dr. Suckley ..... seusjcasalea eee 
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MARECA PENELOPE, Bon. 
English Widgeon. 
Anas penelope, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 202.—Gm. I, 527.—Temm. Man. II, 840. European specimens. Giravup, 
Birds L, Island, 1843, 307, Am. sp. 
Mareca penelope, Bon. List, 1838. 
Mareca fistularis, Eyton, Mon. Anat. 1838, 118. 
Sp. Cu.—Similar to MW. americana. Head and neck reddish brown, without bars; a very small green patch round the eye. 
Length, 20; wing, 10.60; tarsus, 1.52; commissure, 1.64. 
Hab.—Old World. Accidental on the Atlantic coast of United States. Greenland. 
The European widgeon is so frequently shot along the Atlantic American coast as to be justly 
considered as belonging to our fauna, and not asa mere straggler. Every year a few specimens 
are found in the New York market, shot chiefly along the coast of Virginia, Carolina, and 
