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WIGEON, or WIDGEON (Fr. Vigeon, from the Lat. Vipio) ,r also called locally " Whewer " and " Whew " (names imitative of the whistling call
penelope
Penelope
Scotland ; but the nurseries of the vast numbers which resort in autumn to the waters of temperate Europe are in Lapland
Intermediate in size between the teal and the mallard, and less showy in plumage than either, the drake wigeon is a beautiful bird, with the greater part of his bill blue, his forehead cream-colour, his head and neck chestnut,' replaced by greyish- pink
lavender
1 So PIGEON (q.v.) from Pipio. Other French names, more or less local, are, according to Rolland
Hence come the additional local names " bald-pate " and " red-head." conspicuously white, and shows itself again on the flanks. The wings I are further ornamented by a glossy green speculum between two black bars; the tail is pointed and dark; the rest of the lower parts is white. The female has the inconspicuous coloration characteristic of her sex among most of the duck tribe. In habits the wigeon differs not a little from most of the Anatinae. It greatly affects tidal waters during the season of its southern stay, and becomes the object of slaughter to hundreds of gunners on the coasts of Britain and Holland; but, when it resorts to inland localities, as it also does to some extent, it passes much of its time in grazing, especially by day, on the pastures which surround the lakes or moors that it selects. The wigeon occurs occasionally on the eastern coast of North America, and not uncommonly, it would seem, on the Pribyloff Islands in the Pacific. But the New World has two allied species of its own. One of them, M. americana (a freshly killed example of which was once found in a London market), "inhabiting the northern part of that continent, and in winter reaching Central America and the West Indian islands as far as Trinidad, wholly resembles its Old-World congener in habits and much in appearance . But in it the chestnut of the head is replaced by a close speckling of black and buff, the white wing-coverts are wanting, and nearly all the plumage is subdued in tone. The other species, M. sibilatrix, inhabits the southern portion of South
east
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