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ANATIDiE. 
NAT A TORES. 
AN AT IDEE. 
WIGEON. 
Anas Penelope. 
PLATE CXIV. FIG. III. 
The egg from which the drawing is taken, accompanied 
by the following information, was kindly sent me by Mr. 
Selby, who was the first to discover the Wigeon breeding 
in this country, during his ornithological visit to the north 
of Scotland. “ The nest from which the eggs were taken 
was upon an island in Loch Laighal, upon which is a large 
colony of the lesser black-backed gull. It is covered with 
ferns, and other long herbage ; and the nest, well concealed 
in a thick bed of rushes, was composed of their decayed 
stems and other grasses, with a large quantity of the 
bird's down interwoven, the eggs being far advanced, and 
the young nearly ready for exclusion. The female we 
shot when she arose from the nest. Upon most of the 
lochs were several pairs." 
On many of the Norwegian fresh-water lochs which 
we visited, especially those farthest inland, we observed 
several pairs of Wigeon, which were no doubt breeding 
there; but, owing to the hurried manner in which we 
were compelled to pass over so large an extent of country, 
expecting that every advance northwards would increase 
our success, we did not succeed in finding one of their 
nests. 
