FAM. L. DUCES, GEESE, AND SWANS 



803 



Pintail 



central tail feathers are much lengthened and glossed with 

 green. The female has a streaky blackish and buffy head, 

 whitish throat, dark 

 buffy breast, spotted 

 with blackish, and 

 very much spotted 

 and barred sides and 

 back. The sides and 

 back have many 

 whitish, crescent- 

 shaped marks. The 

 speculum is grayish- 

 brown bordered witli 

 white. The central 

 tail feathers are 



broad with acute points; the under wing coverts are dusky. 

 The male in summer is somewhat like the female in coloring, 

 except the wings. (Sprigtail.) 



Length, 21-30 ; wing, 10^ (9J-11^); tail, male 9, female 4 ; tarsus, If; 

 culmen, 2. Northern hemisphere. In North America breeding from 

 Iowa to the Arctic Ocean, and wintering from Virginia southward. 



40. Wood Duck 

 (144. Aixsponsa). — A 

 common, distinctly 

 crested, brilliantly 

 colored, woodland-liv- 

 ing duck, with greens, 

 blues, buffs, browns, 

 blacks, and Avhites in 

 the plumage. Any 

 more elaborate de- 

 scription of this very 

 beautiful duck would 

 be useless ; it must be 

 seen to be appreci- 

 Wood Duck ated. The female is a 



