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Anas penelope (136). Widgeon. 



This Old World species is given as "rare or casual along the 

 Atlantic coast of North America" (Key, 694). 



Several specimens have been taken within our state. One 

 found in market, at Washington by Mr. C. Drexler, in the 

 spring of 1863, shot near Alexandria, Va., is now in the Na- 

 tional Museum (A. C, 103-4). On July 11, 1890, an adult 

 male was found in Washington Market, New York. It "had 

 been shipped from Baltimore and doubtless was shot on the 

 Chesapeake Bay," and is now in the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, N. Y. (Edgar A. Mearns, Auk. viii, 204). "On 

 the property of the Carroll's Island Club, Baltimore County, 

 Mr. W^m. Carpenter, on February 25, 1890, killed one of this 

 species from a bunch of Baldpates. This bird has been mounted 

 and is at present in my care" (L. S. Foster, Auk, viii, 283). 



At a stated meeting of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, 

 held April 5, 1880, Mr. Arthur Resler referred to a specimen 

 of the European Baldpate which he had examined at the taxi- 

 dermist store of A. Wolle, where it had been sent to be mount- 

 ed. It was shot on the Atlantic coast of Maryland (Minutes 

 of Maryland Academy of Sciences, 1880, 280). 



Dr. W^m. H. Poplar has a specimen in his house at Havre- 

 de-Grace. He told me that he shot that "Red-headed Baldpate" 

 in November, 1881, and considered it a cross between a Red- 

 head and a Baldpate. 



Anas americana (137). Baldpate. 



Common during winter, this species, as with nearly all of 

 our ducks, is most numerous during fall and spring flights. 



On September 23 ('93, Fisher) several bunches were noted at 

 Sparrows' Point, and the last Baldpate was shot at Grace's 

 Quarter on April 8 ('86, Ducking Record). 



Inland, a male was taken in October '88, at Ridgley's Dam in 

 Dulaney's Valley (Fisher). On November 4, '93, several bunches 

 were on the Potomac, near Brunswick (Fisher), and it has been 

 taken at Cumberland (Shriver). 



