194 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



" 'Xestling yellowish white on under parts, huff on forehead and throat; 

 a dark hrovvn streak from the forehead to crown, which with the upper 

 parts is hrown ; a dark loral streak, and two other streaks from Itehind eye 

 to nape on each side.' {YarrclL)'' (Salvadori.) 



(Jenus DAFILA Stephens, 18-34. 



This well-marked genus may he recognized hy its elongate form, long 

 neck, and long pointed middle tail-feathers. 



lOL DAFILA ACUTA (Liniiieiis). 



PIN-TAIL DUCK. 



Alias acuta LiXN.EUS, Syst. Nat. eel. 10 (1758), 1, lit). 



Dafila acuta Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (181)5). 27, 270; Blanford, 

 Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 447, fig. 110 (liead) ; Sharpe, Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 219; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 172; Mc- 

 Gregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 38. 



Luzon (tiieere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) . Northern Hemispliere. 

 breeding in the northern parts; south in winter to northern Africa, India, Ceylon, 

 China, and Japan and in America to Panama and Cuba. 



^'AduJf male. — Head and upper neck plain hair-hrown, darker on 

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

 of hind neck hlack, with a white stripe on each side, confluent with the 

 white of lower neck and hreast ; lower hind neck grayish brown ; back, 

 sides, and flanks waved with gray and dusky; upper tail-coverts black, 

 the median broadly edged with gray; longer scapulars velvety black, edged 

 with whitish ; wing-coverts uniform brownish gray, the last row broadly 

 tipped with cinnamon, producing a distinct bar ; primaries brownish gray, 

 darker toward the tip; speculum varying from dull metallic green to 

 Ijronzy purple, tipped with white, and crossed by a subterminal bar of 

 velvety black ; inner quill of the speculum velvety black with a white band 

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

 l)lack median stripe; abdomen whitish, dusted with gray, 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 tail-feathers dusky gray, edged with whitish. Bill blackish, with the 

 sides dull lead-blue; feet grayish black; iris dark brown. Length, from 

 610 to 760; wing, 280; middle tail-feathers, 1S4 to 24(1; culmen, 47 to 

 55 ; tarsus, 39 to 47. 



" 'Adult fcDiale. — Above grayish 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, 

 flanks, abdomen, and under tail-coverts streaked with dusky; wing brown, 

 smaller wing-coverts tipped with whitish; greater wing-coverts and 

 secondaries tipped with white, forming two white bars across the wing, 

 but the space between them dull brown, mottk'd witli black, without any 



