8386 MANUAL FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 
The English widgeon was first noticed by Mr. J. N. 
Lawrence in Fulton market, having been shot on Long 
Island, and the discovery was communicated by him to 
Mr. Giraud, who has embodied it in his admirable work on 
the birds of Long Island. Since that period, however, it 
has been killed so frequently as to merit a place among 
the birds of America. 
The existence on this continent of the English green- 
winged teal, which wants the peculiar lunated bar of white, 
bifurcated at the inferior extremity, crossing the scapulars, 
which is so conspicuous in the males of the American 
species, I was myself, I believe, the first to establish; 
having remarked the fact—which had induced me, in the 
first instance, to suppose the distinctive bar a mere casual 
variation, not a specific distinction—that I had unques- 
tionably shot many birds in this country, without that 
mark, to Mr. J. C. Bell, the distinguished naturalist and 
taxidermist of New York, who had then no knowledge of 
the bird as belonging to this country, but who informed 
me only the other day, that recently many specimens have 
been brought to him. It was previously known to exist 
in Nova Scotia. 
It is worthy of remark here, that many varieties of 
wild fowl, formerly confined to extreme northern and 
southern latitudes, are, of late, greatly extending their 
ranges, and meeting, as it were, midway between their 
natural abodes. Several Arctic fowls, which were former- 
ly never seen westward of Cape Cod, and others of which 
the farthest eastern limit was the Cape of Florida, now 
