Widgeon/pigeon?? 

["John Layton" <>]

“Maybe ‘widgeon’ was a general kind of label for more than one species.  I think Layton of the Overflow  used it.   g”

 

Layton of the Overflow – and he don’t know where it are – used the reference ‘widgeon’ with much poetic licence. Only widgeon I ever saw was in Illinois, and was told they were Anas americana, as distinct from the similar-looking European widgeon.

 

John Layton

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