270 ANATIDJ;. 



•32. DAFILA. 



Type. 



Dafila, Leach, in Brit. Mus. ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. 2, 

 p. 126 (1824) D. acuta. 



Trachelouetta, Eaup, Naficrl. Si/st. p. 11-5 (1829) D. acuta. 



Phasianurus, Wciffl. Isis, 1832, p. 1225 D. acuta. 



Dapbila (!), Sw.,Jide Coues, Birds N.-West, p. 562 (1874) ; 

 Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 14 (1875). 



Range. Cosmopolitan, except Australia and New Zealand, but 

 one species has been found in the Phoenix Group. 



Keii to the Spedes. 



a. Tail-feathers not barred across. 



«'. Central tail-feathers black, lateral ones 

 grey, ^^^th paler or whitish margins ; 

 head dark brown ; a narrow band at the 

 tip of the last row of wing-coverts 

 cinnamon. 

 a". Larger: culmen 1'85-2'15 inches ; an- 

 terior part and sides of neck, breast, 

 and middle of the abdomen white. . . . acuta tS ; P- -"0. 

 b" . Smaller : culmen 1'.35 inch : anterior 

 ]mrt and sides of neck, breast, and 

 abdomen dull greyish ; the breast with 



narrow brown streaks eatoni c? , p. 278. 



b'. Central tail-feathers dark brown, a little 

 darker than the lateral ones; head 

 rufescent on the upper part, whitish on 

 the lower part, thickly dotted with 

 blackish ; band at the tip of the last row 

 of the wing-coverts, like the one at the 



tip of the secondaries, buff spinicauda cJ $ , p. 279. 



h. Tail-feathers blackish, barred across with 

 whitish or rufescent. 



c'. Larger : culmen 1'85 inch acuta 2 , p. 270. 



d' . Smaller : culmen 1-35 inch eatoni $ , p. 278. 



1. Dafila acuta. 



The Pintail. 



Anas longicauda, Briss. Orn. vl p. 369, pi. 34. ff. 1 (^), 2 ( $ ) 



(1760) ; Brehm, Isis, 1830, p. 997, n. 2 ; id. Nature/. Viig. Deutschl. 



p. 868 (1831). 

 Anas acuta, Linn. S. N. i. p. 202, n. 28 (1766) ; Gm. S. N. i. 2, 



p. 528, n. 28 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 864, n. 81 (1790) ; 



Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. p. 137, pi. 38. f. 3 (1790) ; Lath. Tr. Linn. 



Soc. iv. p. 110, pi. xiii. f. 6 (trachea) (1798) ; Wils. Am. Orn. viii. 



p. 72, pi. 63. f. 3 (1814) ; Tem?n. Man. d' Orn. p. 540 (1815); 



Vieill. N. D. v. p. 133 (1816) ; Dam. Diet. Sc. Nat. vi. p. 369 



(1817) ; Temm. Man. 2nd ed. ii. p. 838 (1820) ; Boie, Isis, 1822, 



p. .564 ; Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 84 (1823) (Eoypt, Nubia) ; Bp. Obs. 



Wils. n. 528 (1825) ; id. Syn. p. 383, n. 325 (1828) ; Less. Man. 



d'Orn. ii. p. 417 (1828); Flem. Brit. An. p. 124 (1828) ; Less. Tr. 



d'Orn. p. 634 (1831); Brehm, Naturg. Viic/. Deutschl. p. 866 



(1831); Wagl. Isis, 1831, p. 532 (:Mexico) (= Anas tzitzihoa, 



