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brown ; the tarsi and toes are of a clingy yellowish brown ; the inter- 

 digital membranes dusky ; the claws brown ; the head and upper neck 

 are umber brown; the lower neck all round dull ash grey, the feathers 

 terminally edged with paler ; the lower parts are white, but the sides 

 of the body and rump, with part of the abdomen, ai'o grey ; the axillars 

 and lower wing-coverts brownish grey ; the back and scapulars are 

 deep ash grey, but on the hind part of back that colour shades into black ; 

 the tail dark brown, tinged with grey ; the smaller wing-coverts arc 

 deep grey, many of them tipped with pale grey; the primaries, their 

 coverts, four outer secondaries, and five inner, with their coverts brown- 

 ish black ; the seven other secondaries pure white, as are their coverts, 

 unless at the base. 



"Length, — To end of tail 16 inches, expanse 28, wing 8*25, tail 8*25> 

 bill along the ridge 1'25, tarsus 1*25." — Mac Gillivray, Br. B. ex Sfr- 

 F. vii. 441. 



Hah. — Sind, Lucknow {Bonavia) North Afghanistan. 



This species has not to my knowledge been obtained in Sind during 

 the last thirteen years. " Sir A. Burncs obtained a specimen on the 

 Indus, which is figured among his drawings in the possession of the 

 Asiatic Society." 



Dafila, Leach. ; Gray, Gen, Birds, iii. p. 61 5. 



Tail with the central feathers nnrrow and much lengthened beyond 

 the rest ; neck long ; bill elevated at the base, of nearly uniform width ; 

 1st primary of wing longest. 



Dafila acuta. The Pintail. 



Dafila acuta, Lin. ; P. E. 954 ; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 805 ; Jerd, B. Ind, 

 ni. p. 8U3; Str. F. i. 261 ; iv. 29, 200; Murray, lldbk., Zoul., ^x., ISind, 

 p. 235; Hume, Game Birds hid. p. 190. {Sivk^par, N. W. Provmces ; 

 Koharallce, Drcegush, Sind.) — Thk Pintail. 



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