AMEEICM WIGEON. 



MARECA AMERICANA {J. F. Gmelin). 



Anas americanaj /. F. Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 526. 



Mareca americana, Macg. v. p. 90 ; Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 403. 



The only recorded occurrences of this American Duck 

 now considered trustworthy are one by Blyth of a male 

 found with a number of Common Wigeon in Leadenhall 

 Market in the winter of 1837-38, and now in the 

 collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney, of Keswick Hall, and 

 one, a female, found by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey with 

 a number of Common Wigeon in a game-dealer's 

 shop in Leeds, in February 1895. [See P. Z. S. 1895, 

 p. 273.] 



The home of this species is North America, where 

 it is common, breeding as far north as the shores of 

 the Arctic Ocean, its winter migration extending to 

 Guatemala. [0. S.] 



