The European Widgeon in Massachusetts. — Messrs. Angell and 
Cash, the well-known taxidermists of Providence, Rhode Island, have 
kindly given me permission to report that an adult male European Widgeon 
(.Mareca penelope), recently skinned and mounted by them, was shot at 
Chappaquiddick, Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, October 6, 1917, by 
Mr. Arthur R. Sharpe. The specimen has been identified by Mr. Arthur C. 
Bent and Mr. John C. Sharpe, Jr. It would be interesting to know whether, 
as would seem to be the case, this old world species visits our Atlantic 
sea-board oftener now than formerly or is found there oftener fnerely 
because competent field observers of bird life are so much more numerous 
and omnipresent than they were thirty or forty years ago.— William 
Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 
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