A MK HI CAN WIG EON. lo-"J 



base; its tip white : from the base of the beak, passing 

 through the eyes, is a black streak : the cheeks, chin, 

 and upper part of the neck, ashy-white : the crown, 

 nape, hind part of the neck, back, wing-coverts, pri- 

 mary quills, and tail, black, edged with ash-colour : 

 the secondary quills white : speculum green, the fea- 

 thers edged with white : the vent black : legs red- 

 dish-yellow. 



AMERICAN WIGEON. 



(Mareca Americana.) 



TA\.Jerruginco yiigroque undulata, abdomine albido, capite albo 

 nigroque maculato, pone oculos strigd utrinque ad nucham 

 nigro-virescente. teciricibus alarum meilio albis. 



"V\ igeon wared with rust-colour and black, with the abdomen 

 whitish, the head spotted with black and white, behind the 

 eyes on each side a black-green stripe nearly to the nape, the 

 wing-coverts white in the middle. 



Anas Americana. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 526. Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 '2. 861. 



Canard Jensen. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 174. Buff. PI. Enl. 

 955. 



American Wigeon. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 502. Lath. Gen. Syn. 

 6. 520. Wils. Amer. Orn. via. p. 86. pi. Ixix./. 4. 



LENGTH twenty-two inches : beak lead-colour, tip 

 black : forehead and crown of the head cream-coloured 

 or sometimes nearly white : the feathers inflated : the 

 hind part of the head and neck speckled with black 

 and white : from the eye backwards to the middle of 

 the neck behind, extends a band of deep changeable 



