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CAPE WIGEON. 



(Mareca Capensis.) 



MA. cinerascens, dorso ex rubescente-fasco, pennis marginejlaves- 



centibus, speculo alarum carideo-'cirescente albo marginato. 

 Ashy Wigeon with the back of a reddish-brown, the feathers edged 



with yellowish, the speculum of the wing blue-green edged with 



white. 

 Anas Capensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 527. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



861. 

 Cape Wigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 519. 



DESCRIBED by Latham from the drawings of Sir 

 Joseph Banks. " Size of a Wigeon : length fifteen 

 inches : beak two inches ; colour red ; round the base 

 black : the head is of a pale bluish-ash colour, marked 

 with minute dusky specks, as in the Wigeon : lower 

 part of the neck and breast bluish-ash colour, the 

 feathers margined with the last : back reddish-brown, 

 edged with cream-colour : quills of a dusky ash : 

 speculum on the wings pale greenish-blue, bounded 

 above and below with white : legs pale red : webs 

 dusky : claws black. 



" Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope." 



