274 AXATIDiE. 



Madde, Reise S. O.-Sibii: ii. p. 371 (1863) ; Rchnw. Orn. Centralbl. 



1882, p. 20 ; id. Vog. zool. Glirt. p. 63 (1882). 

 Daphila acuta, Gieb. Thes. Oin. ii. p. 14 (1875). 

 Daphila longicauda, Gieb. ibid. 



Hybrids. 

 Dafila acuta X Ehyncliaspis clvpeata, Seli/s, Bp. Conipt. Mend, xliii. 



p. 650 (1856). 

 Anas boschas x Daiila acuta, A. Newt. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 338, 



pi. clxviii. 

 Anas acuta X A. querquedula, Leadb. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 84. 

 Dafila acuta c? X Anas bosclias (domestica) $ , Bias, in Nauni. Vog. 



Beutschl. xiii. 2, p. 308, Taf. 389. f. 3 (1860J ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1880, p. 515. 

 Pintail cS x Common Duck 2 , Yarrell, Hist. Brif. B. {^Saund. ed.), 



iv. p. 383 (1884-85). 



Adult male. Head and upper neck plain hair-brown, darker on 

 -crown, and faintly glossed on sides of occiput with purple ; upper 

 half of hind neck black, with a white stripe on each side, confluent 

 with the white of the lower neck and breast ; lower hind neck 

 greyish brown ; back, sides, and flanks waved with grey and dusky ; 

 upper tail-coverts black, the median broadly edged with grey ; longer 

 scapulars velvety black, edged ■s\-ith whitish ; wiug-coverts uniform 

 brownish grey, the last row broadly tipped with cinnamon, producing 

 a distinct bar ; primaries brownish grey, darker towards the tip ; 

 speculum varying from dull metallic green to bronzy purple, tipped 

 with white, and crossed by a subterminal bar of velvety black ; the 

 inner quill of the speculum velvety black, with a ■\^•hite band along 

 the inner part of the outer web ; tertials grey, marked with a velvety 

 black median stripe ; abdomen whitish, dusted with grey, lower 

 flanks with a buff tinge ; under tail-coverts black, the outer ones 

 white on the outer web ; central tail-feathers long, acuminate, and 

 black, remainder of the tail-feathers dusky grey, edged with whitish : 

 bill blackish, with the sides dull lead-blue ; feet greyish black ; 

 irides dark brown. Total length from 24 to 30 inches, wing 11, 

 middle tail-feathers 7'25-9-50, culmen 1-85-2-15, tarsus 1*55- 

 1-85. 



Adult female. Above greyish dusky, varied with irregular bars of 

 yellowish white or pale ochraceous ; head and neck whitish buff, 

 each feather, except on throat, streaked with blackish ; lower parts 

 dingy white, the flanks, the abdomen, and under tail-coverts streaked 

 with dusky ; wings brown, smaller wing-coverts tipped with whitish ; 

 the greater wing-coverts and the secondaries are tipped with white, 

 forming two white bars across the wing, but the space between them 

 is dull brown, mottled with black, without any metallic gloss of 

 any kind (Seehohm) : tail brown, with oblique huffish spots or bars. 

 Total length 21-23-50 inches, wing 9-60-10-10, middle tail-feathers 

 4-50-5, culmen 1-80-2-10, tarsus 1-65. 



Young in first plumage closely resemble adult females, but young 

 males may always be distinguished by having an alar speculum 

 {^SeeboJim). 



Males in first nuptial plumage have pale margins to the wing- 



