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BIMACULATED WIGEON ? 



(Mareca? glocitans.) 



MA ? subcristata fusca nigro undata, capite viridi, macula ante 



poneque oculosjerruginea, pectore maculis nigris, specido alarum 



viridi albo marginato. 

 Slightly crested brown Wigeon? waved with black, with the head 



green, a rust-coloured spot before and behind the eyes, the 



breast with black spots, the alar speculum green bordered with 



white. 

 Anas glocitans. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 526. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



862. 

 Bimaculated Duck. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 287. pi. 100. f. '2. 



Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 521. Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. Ben. Brit. 



Birds, 2. 355. 



THIS rare bird is in length twenty inches : beak 

 deep lead-colour ; nail black : irides brown : the crown 

 of the head brown, changeable with green, ending in 

 a streak of brown at the hind head, which is slightly 

 crested : between the beak and eye a round fer- 

 ruginous spot ; another spot of the same, but larger 

 and oblong, behind each ear : throat of a fine deep 

 purple : the rest of the head bright green, continued 

 in streaks down the neck : the breast light ferruginous 

 brown, waved with black : wing-coverts ash-coloured ; 

 lower coverts streaked with rust-colour : scapulars 

 cinereous : quills the same, inclining to brown : se- 

 condaries fine green, ending in a shade of black edged 

 with white : the two middle tail-feathers black ; the 

 others brown edged with white : tail-coverts deep 

 changeble green : belly dusky, finely granulated : legs 



