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Anas penelope (136). Widgeon. 
This Old World species is given as “rare or casual along the 
Atlantic coast of North America” (Key, 694). 
Several specimens have been taken within our state. One 
found in market, at Washington by Mr. C. Drexler, in the 
spring of 1863, shot near Alexandria, Va., is now in the Na- 
tional Museum (A. C., 103-4). On July 11, 1890, an adult 
male was found in Washington Market, New York. It “had 
been shipped from Baltimore and doubtless was shot on the 
Chesapeake Bay,” and is now in the American Museum of Nat- 
ural History, N. Y. (Edgar A. Mearns, Auk. viii, 204). “On 
the property of the Carroll’s Island Club, Baltimore County, 
Mr. Wm. Carpenter, on February 25, 1890, killed one of this 
species from a bunch of Baldpates. This bird has been mounted 
and is at present in my care” (L. S. Foster, Auk, viii, 283). 
At a stated meeting of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, 
held April 5, 1880, Mr. Arthur Resler referred to a specimen 
of the European Baldpate which he had examined at the taxi- 
dermist store of A. Wolle, where it had been sent to be mount- 
ed. It was shot on the Atlantic coast of Maryland (Minutes 
of Maryland Academy of Sciences, 1880, 280). 
Dr. Wm. H. Poplar has a specimen in his house at Havre- 
de-Grace. He told me that he shot that “‘Red-headed Baldpate”’ 
in November, 1881, and considered it a cross between a Red- 
head and a Baldpate. 
Anas americana (137). Baldpate. 
Common during winter, this species, as with nearly all of 
our ducks, is most numerous during fall and spring flights. 
On September 23 (’93, Fisher) several bunches were noted at 
Sparrows’ Point, and the last Baldpate was shot at Grace’s 
Quarter on April 8 (’86, Ducking Record), 
Inland, a male was taken in October ’88, at Ridgley’s Dam in 
Dulaney’s Valley (Fisher). On November 4, ’93, several bunches 
were on the Potomac, near Brunswick (Fisher), and it has been 
taken at Cumberland (Shriver). 
