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round the upper half of the neck and throat are long 

 and pointed^ as in the domestic cock*, and dull orange; 

 but the lower part of the neck^ and part of the breast, is 

 chestnut : on each side of the breast are three trans- 

 verse black stripes, divided by two others of white ; the 

 scapulars also are black, margined with white : the back 

 and rump are dusky brown, glossed with green blue : the 

 wing spot, or speculum, is blue green, bordered below 

 with white ; some of the secondary quills are singularly 

 formed, — the outer web being very broad and curved 

 upwards, so as to stand upright when the wing is closed ; 

 the broader web is pale chestnut, tipt with black ; but 

 the other web is narrow, and of the same dusky black 

 as the other quills : the tail is pointed, of a dull brown, 

 edged with blue green : the sides of the body are light 

 fulvous, crossed transversely with delicate hues of black : 

 lower part of the breast, and bellVj, white. 



The female, according to Latham, is not unlike that 

 of the summer duck ; but has two bars of white upon 

 the wing : the breast seems more clouded with brown ; 

 and the spots are not of a triangular shape, but rounded: 

 at first sight, however, there appears very little differ- 

 ence between the females of the two species.f 



The American Widgeon. 



Mai'eca Americana, Rich. {Fig. 3,5.) 



Plumage waved with rufous and black ; front and 

 crown cream-coloured white : behind the eyes a black 

 green stripe : wing covers white in the middle. 



Mareca Americana, Rich. Northern Zoology, ii. 446, Anas 

 Americana, Gmelin, Si/si. Naf. i. ,o26. Latham, Index Orn. 

 ii. 361. Canard Jensen, £^lff. PL Enl. 955. American 

 Wigeon, Wilson^s Amer. Orn. viii. pi. 69. f. 4. 



This is one of the most beautiful of the North 

 American ducks, and well deserves every effort being 

 made to render it as familiar an inhabitant of our 



* This is anotlier analogy to the rasorial order. 

 f Gen. Hist. x. o^i. 



