ANSERES. 247 



Hakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1877;, p. 147), and there are seven examples 

 in the Pryer collection from Yokohama. Mr. Ringer procured it at 

 Nagasaki, where the examples obtained by the Siebold Expedition 

 were probably also procured (Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 

 Aves, p. 138). 



The Pintail is a circumpolar bird, breeding in the Arctic Regions 

 of both continents. 



241. ANAS PENELOPE. 

 (WIGEON.) 



Anas penelope, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 202 (1766). 



The Wigeon is not one of the smaller Ducks (wing from carpal 

 joint 9^ to 10^ inches), but it has a small bill (from frontal feathers 

 1^ to If inches). Its axillaries and under wing-coverts are mottled 

 with brown. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, vi. pis. 532, 533. 



The Wigeon passes the coasts of Yezzo in spring and autumn, and 

 winters in great numbers in Southern Japan (Blakiston and Pryer, 

 Ibis, 1878, p. 213). The Perry Expedition obtained an example 

 from Hakodadi in May 1854 (Cassin, Exp. Am. Squad. China 

 Seas and Japan, ii. p. 231) ; and there is an example in the Swinhoe 

 collection, also from Hakodadi, obtained by Captain Blakiston in 

 November (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1875, p. 457) . There are four examples in 

 the Pryer collection from Yokohama, and it has been obtained near 

 Nagasaki (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 97), 

 where the examples procured by the Siebold Expedition were doubt- 

 less also obtained (Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, 

 p. 128). 



The Wigeon winters on the shores of Great Britain as well as on 

 those of Japan, breeding throughout the intervening Arctic Regions. 

 It is represented on the American continent by a nearly allied 

 species. Anas americana, which is said occasionally to wander across 

 the Atlantic as far as the British Islands. 



