5 i8 DUG K. 



g. Anas Penelope, Lin, Syjl. i. p. 202. 27.— Faun. Suec. N° 1 34. — Brim. 



+- COMMON N° 72.— Muller,N° 12\.—Kram. El.p. 342. 16.— Georgi Reife, p. 166. 



WIGEON. Anas Kogolha, iV. C. iVr. xv. p. 468. N° 1 5. t. 21 ? 



Le Canard fiffleur, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 391. 21. pi. 35. fig. 2. — Buf. Oif. ix. 



p. 169. pi. 10, 11. — PL Enl. 825. 

 The Wigeon, Whewer, or Whim, Rati Syn. p. 146. A. 3. — Will. Orn. 

 p. 375. pi. 72. — Albin, ii. pi. 99. — Br. Zool. ii. N° 286. — ArEi. Zool. 

 p. 574. K. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. ' EN GTH twenty inches : weight twenty-three ounces. Bill 

 narrow, an inch and a half long, and of a blueifh lead-co- 

 lour : tip black : the top of the head is cream-colour, a little 

 mottled with dufky fpots ; over the bill almoft white : head and 

 neck of a bright bay, and fpotted with dufky : the lower part of 

 it behind, and the bread, vinaceous * : back and fcapulars mi- 

 nutely undulated with black and white lines : fides of the body 

 the fame, but paler : wing coverts brown, more or lefs mixed 

 with white t '• quills dufky, fome of them banded with white; 

 the outer webs of the middle ones green, forming a fpeculum or 

 fpot, bounded above and below with black : the belly white : 

 vent black : legs dufky lead-colour. 

 Female. The female is brown, the middle of the feathers deepefl : the 



fore part of the neck and breaft paler : fcapulars dark brown, 

 with paler edges : wings and belly as in the male. 

 Placi and This fpecies is pretty common on moll parts of the old conti- 



nent, on which we are allured it migrates as low as Egypt -, being 



* Sometimes, though rarely, marked with round black fpots.— i?r. Zool. 

 ■f In fome fpecies wholly white. 



caught 



Manners. 



