. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. ANATIDiE. 439. THE AMERICAN WIGEON. Mareca AMERICANA (J. F. Gmelin). The occurrence of this bird in a London market during the winter of 1837-8 was thus noticed by Blyth, in the third volume of N. Wood's 'Naturalist,' p. 417:—"The American Wigeon is a novelty which was obtained by Mr. Bartlett. He selected it from a row of Common Wigeons, deeming it, at the time, to be only an accidental variety of the species ; there was a female along with it, which, after some hesitation, he unfortunately left, considering it only as a variety, but insuf
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. ANATIDiE. 439. THE AMERICAN WIGEON. Mareca AMERICANA (J. F. Gmelin). The occurrence of this bird in a London market during the winter of 1837-8 was thus noticed by Blyth, in the third volume of N. Wood's 'Naturalist,' p. 417:—"The American Wigeon is a novelty which was obtained by Mr. Bartlett. He selected it from a row of Common Wigeons, deeming it, at the time, to be only an accidental variety of the species ; there was a female along with it, which, after some hesitation, he unfortunately left, considering it only as a variety, but insufficiently diverse to be worth preserving; he has since, however, positively recognized the female of the American Wigeon to be identical,with the bird he thus passed over hesitatingly in the market.'' This specimen—a male—is now in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney, and we may fairly assume that it was really taken in this country. Thompson believed on hearsay evidence that one, not preserved, was killed in February 1844 on Strangford Lough near Belfast; Thomas Edward, of Banff, has enumerated, among his many unauthenticated rarities, another, shot on the Burn of Boyndie in January 1841, but afterwards thrown away; while two records in ' The Zoologist' are so utterly unsub- stantiated as to be unworthy of serious consideration. In February 1895, however. Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey obtained in the flesh a young male, which had been recently selected from a number of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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