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Canard fifBeur. Buff. Oif. 9. p, 159- t, 10. 1 1.— P^. Enl. «. S^S-. 

 Pfeifente. .B/oc^. j5f/c^. ^^er JBer/. Naturf, 4.p, 601. 18./. 5. 

 BlalTente. Frifch, av, t, 1 64. 



WiGEON, Whewer, or Whim. Ray. Orn.p, 146. J, 

 Will. Orn.p. 375. 12. 

 Albin. av. 2. ^. 99. 

 Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 2. p. 518. 63. 



This fpecies of wild fowl occurs abundantly in various countries of 

 Europe, Afia, and Africa, in all which it is reputed of the migratory 

 kind : it migrates as far as Aleppo and Egypt during the winter, and 

 at different feafons appears in various parts of Europe as far to the 

 northward as Sweden ; it is believed to breed more to the northward 

 than the Britifh ifles. 



During the winter months the Wigeon is taken in plenty in our 

 marihes, with others of the Duck tribe, by means of the nets and 

 decoys^ and as the ileih is much admired, the London markets are 

 pretty regularly fupplied with the Wigeon throughout the winter, and 

 early part of the fpring. 



The length of this bird is twenty inches: the female is rather 

 fmaller, of a brown colour, and undulated : the neck and breall paler : 

 fcapulars dark brown, and the wings and belly as in the male bird. 

 The young males are obferved to referable the female till the following 

 fpring after being hatched, when they acquire the full plumage, which 

 however they retain only till the end of the fummer^ when they again 

 refemble the female till the enfuing moulting. 



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