Class IL W I G E O N. 6oi 



Anas rufa roflro pedibufque cinereis. Faun. Suec. fp. 47. 285. Ferru- 



g 1 NOUS. 



rTlHE defcription of this fpecies was fen t to us Descrip. 

 *■ by Mr. Bolton, The weight was twenty oun- 

 ces : the bill is long and flatted, rounded a little 

 at the bafe, ferrated along the edges of each man- 

 dible, and furnifhed with a nail at the end of the 

 upper. The color a pale blue. The head, neck, 

 and whole upper part of the bird is of an agreea- 

 ble reddifh brown : the throat, bread and belly of 

 the fame color, but paler : the legs of a pale blue ; 

 but the webs of the feet black. 



This fpecies, he informed us, was killed in Lin- 

 colnfhire. We do not find it mentioned by any wri- 

 ter, except Linnaeus, who toke his defcription from 

 Rudbeck's paintings j and adds, that it is found, 

 though rarely, in the Swedifh rivers. 



Anas fiftularis (ein Pfeifente) Anas fiftularis, le Canard fif- 286.WiGe< 

 Gefner aw- 121. iieur. Briffon a-~u. VI. 39 1. 



Penelope. Aldr. a<v. III. 92. tab. 35 'fg. z ' 



Wigeon, or Whewer. Wil. EifTent mit weiffer platten. 

 orn. 375. Kram, 342. 



Raii fin. a<u. 146. Danis Bles-And. Brunnich t 



Anas penelops. Lin. fyft» 72. 



202. Br.Zool. 157. add. plates. 



Wriand. Faun. Suec. fp. 124. 



f I ^HE wigeon weighs near twenty-three oun- Descrip, 

 -*■ ces : the length is twenty inches - 9 the breadth 

 R r 4 two 



