PLATE CIX. 
The Widgeon. 
In this Plate is reprefented the Male bird, which. like all others of the kind, difplays more bril- 
liancy in his colours, and furpaffes the female both in fize and fliape. He leads, and is followed by 
a train of females wherever he goes. The male bird has the fupremacy over the female, as Ihe has 
over her young ones. For their habits and manners, we refer to the defcription of a former plate 
of the female; which precludes the neceffity of any thing more being faid on the fubjeft. 
No. XXXVII. ^ ^ 
