Class II. 



WIGEON DUCK. 



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description from Rudbeck's paintings ; and adds, 

 that it is found, though rarely, in the Sxvedish 

 rivers. 



Anas Penelope. A. cauda a- 

 cutiviscula, crisso nigro, ca- 

 pita brunneo, fronte alba, 

 dorsocinereoundulato.Z«/fA. 

 Ind. orn. 860. id. Syn. vi. 

 518. id. Sup. ii. 354. 



Anas fistularis (ein Pfeifente). 

 Gesner av. 121. 



Penelope. Aldr. av. iii. Q2. 



Wigeon, or Whewer. Wil. 

 orn. 375. 



Hail Syn. av. 146. 



Anas penelope. Gm. Lin. 527- 25. Wigeox. 

 Wriand. Faufi. Suec. sp. 124, 

 Anas Tistularis, le Canard sif- 



fleur. Brisson av. vi. SQL 



tah. 3b. Jig. 2. Hist, d'ois. 



ix. 169. PL Enl. 825. 

 Eissent mit weisser platten. 



Kram. 342. 

 Danis Bles-And. Brunnich, 



72. 

 Br. Zool. 157. add. plates. 



Arci. Zool. ii. 302. 



A HE wigeon weighs near twenty-three ounces : 

 the length is twenty inches ; the breadth two 

 feet three. The bill is lead colored, the end of 

 it black ; the head, and upper part of the neck, 

 are of a bright light bay ; the forehead paler, 

 in some birds almost white ; the plumage of the 

 back, and sides under the wings, are elegantly 

 marked with narrow, black and white undulated 

 lines ; the breast is of a purplish hue, which some- 

 times, though rarely, is marked with round black 

 spots ; the belly white; the vent feathers black; 

 in some specimens the coverts of the wings are 

 almost wholly white 5 in others of a pale brown, 



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