

COMMON WIGEONT. 



(Mareca fistularis.) 



MA. capite brunneo, fronte alba, dorso cinereo undulato, crisso 



nigro. 

 Wigeon with the head brown, the forehead white, the back waved 



with ash-colour, the vent black. 

 Anas Penelope. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1 . 202. GmcL Sy.st. Xat. I . 



527. Rail, Syn. 146. A. Lath. Ltd. Orn. 2. 860. 

 Anas fistularis. Briss. Orn. 6. 39l.pl. 35. f. 2. 

 Canard Siffleur. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 169. pi. 10, 11. Buff. 



PI. Enl. 825. Temm. man. d'Orn. 542. Id. 2 Edit. ii. 840. 

 Le Siffleur. Cur. Reg. Anim. 1. 538. 

 Wigeon, Whewer, Whim. Penn. Brit. Zoo!. 2. 268. Penn. 



Arct. Zool. 2. 574. Alb. Birds, 2. pi. 99. Lath. Gen. Syn. 



6. 518. Lath. Syn. Sup. ii. 354. Lath. Linn. Trans, iv. iii. 



pi. 13./. 9. (trachea.) Lew. Brit. Birds, 7. pL 251. Wale. 



Syn. I. pi. 71. Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. and Sup. Bra:. Brit. 



Birds, 2. pi. 252. 



UPWARDS of eighteen inches in length : beak blue, 

 but black at its tip : irides brown : the forehead is 

 yellowish-white : the head and neck are chesnut-red : 

 the face is spotted with black : the throat is black : 

 the breast is of a vinaceous colour : the back and 

 sides are striped with black and white zigzags : the 

 wing-coverts and under parts of the body are white : 

 the speculum of the wing is composed of three bands; 

 the middle one is green, and the outer ones deep 

 black : the scapulars are black, edged with white : 

 the under tail-coverts are black : the legs are ash- 

 coloured. The female is less: the top of the head 



