The Game Birds And Wild Fowl of the British Islands
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Its note is described as a low whistle, but probably it has others which resemble those of the Common Wigeon. Its food is composed of vegetable and animal substances, notably the succulent weed vallisneria and rice. The flesh of this bird is said to be excellent. Nidification. The nest of the American Wigeon is placed on the earth amongst trees and bushes in swampy districts, but always on a dry bit of ground, and is made of dead grass, leaves, and other vegetable refuse, and lined with plenty ...of down and a few feathers plucked from the breast or flanks of the female. The eggs are from six to twelve in number, creamy-white in colour, and measure on an average 2'2 inches in length by 1/5 inch in breadth. The down is apparently the same in colour as that of the Common Wigeon. One brood only is reared in the year. Diagnostic characters. (Nuptial plumage) Mareca, with the upper tail coverts grey, the under tail coverts black, the upper part of the head whitish, sides of head and upper neck whitish, spotted with black (male) ; with the head and upper neck whitish spotted with black (female).
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