WILD FOWL SHOOTING. 335 
back is the first, the red-head, or, according to some, the 
widgeon is the second, and the scaup, or black-head, the 
least deserving of the lot. 
It is worthy of remark, that within the last few years 
the English widgeon, and the English green-winged teal, 
anas Penelope, and anas Crecca, both of which are dis- 
tinct varieties from the American kinds, distinguishable 
by small though plain and immutable marks, are becoming 
frequent among us, working their way, as it would seem, 
from the north-east south-westerly, having been, until 
within the last twenty-five years, unknown on this continent. 
The annexed cut represents the English widgeon, the 
principal difference between which and the American bird 
is, that the former has the whole of the wing-coverts pure 
white, tipped with black, whereas in the latter the pri- 
mary coverts are brown and the secondaries only white. 
This distinction is well preserved in the cut, as also the 
variation in the shape and coloring of the head and bill. 
