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4- AMERICAN American Wigeon, ArO. Zool. N° 502. 



WIGEON. ; lev , Ms/ 



Descrittion. .A TRIFLE bigger than our Wigeon : length the fame. 



Bill lead-colour ; tip black : crown and forehead yellowilli 



"white : hind part of the head and neck black and white, fpeckl-ed : 



hehind the eye a black mark, changing in fome lights to green : 



back and fcapulars pale ruft-colour, waved with tranfverfe black 



lines: in the middle of the wins; coverts a large bed of white: 



quills and tail deep brown : vent nearly black : legs dufky. 



Place and Inhabits North America, from Carolina to Hudfon's Bay; but is 



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no where a common bird. Called at New Tork, the Pheafant 



Duck *. In more plenty at St. Domingo and Cayenne, where it 

 is called -Vingeon or Gingeon. At Martinico great flocks of them 

 often take fbort flights from one w<?-plantation to another, 

 where they make much havock, particularly during the rainy fea- 

 fon. Are faid to perch on trees. Feed in company, and have a 

 centinel on the watch, like fome other birds. This fpecies is fel- 

 dom feen during the day, lying hid in places fhaded fromtheya»; 

 but fo foon as that luminary difappears, come forth from their 

 hiding-places to feed ; and, during this, make a particular kind of 

 noife, fo as to guide the fportfman in his refearches after them; 

 often betraying themfelves thereby, when otherwife, under cover 

 of the evening, their filence would protect them : at other times 

 their note is a kind of foft ivhijlle, which is often imitated in or- 

 der to decoy them within reach of the gun. They fit in January, 



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