. Animals in menageries. j, white. The female, according to Latham, is not unlike thatof the summer duck ; but has two bars of white uponthe wing : the breast seems more clouded with brown ;and the spots are not of a triangular shape, but rounded:at first sight, however, there appears very little differ-ence between the females of the two The American Widgeon. Maieca Americana, Rich. {Fig. 3,5.) Plumage waved with rufous and black; front andcrown cream-coloured white : behind the eyes a blackgreen stripe : wing covers white in the middle. Mareca Americana, Rich. Northern Zoology, ii.
. Animals in menageries. j, white. The female, according to Latham, is not unlike thatof the summer duck ; but has two bars of white uponthe wing : the breast seems more clouded with brown ;and the spots are not of a triangular shape, but rounded:at first sight, however, there appears very little differ-ence between the females of the two The American Widgeon. Maieca Americana, Rich. {Fig. 3,5.) Plumage waved with rufous and black; front andcrown cream-coloured white : behind the eyes a blackgreen stripe : wing covers white in the middle. Mareca Americana, Rich. Northern Zoology, ii. 446, AnasAmericana, Gmelin, Si/si. Naf. i. ,o26. Latham, Index 361. Canard Jensen, £^lff. PL Enl. 955. AmericanWigeon, Wilson^s Amer. Orn. viii. pi. 69. f. 4. This is one of the most beautiful of the NorthAmerican ducks, and well deserves every effort beingmade to render it as familiar an inhabitant of our * This is anotlier analogy to the rasorial Gen. Hist. x. o^i. AMERICAN WIDGEON. v\ —. -\a 35 235. waters as the English species. Although long in-corporated in our systems, its manners, which are very-peculiar, were first made known by Wilson. He saysthat it is of a sprightly, frolicsome disposition, and,with proper attention, might easily be seems to be very common in winter, along the wholecoast of the United States, from Florida to RhodeIsland; but it is particularly abundant among the riceplantations of Carolina. From some of these localities,we trust, the transatlantic friends of the OrnithologicalSociety will soon transmit a few brace. This widgeon is the constant companion of the well-known canvas-backed duck of the American rivers, bythe aid of whose labour he procures his most favouritefood. The widgeon is extremely fond of the tenderroots of a particular aquatic plant on which the canvas-back chiefly feeds, and for which that duck is in theconstant habit of diving. The widgeon, who cannotdive, watches the moment of the canvas-back
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