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PINTAIL. 
- COMMON PINTAIL. PINTAIL DUCK. CRACKER. 
SEA PHEASANT. WINTER DUCK. 
Anas acuta, > PENNANT. MoNnrTAGuU. 
Querquedula acuta, SELBY. 
Dafila caudacuta, GOULD. 
Anas—A Dick. Acuta—Sharp. 
In Europe this bird is said to be common in Lapland, Russia, 
Norway, Sweden, Holland, Germany, and France; occurring 
also in Spain and Italy. In Asia it has been seen in 
Siberia, Tartary, Japan, China, Asia Minor, Persia, and the 
vicinity of the Caspian Sea. It belongs also to North America, 
and is found from Hudson’s Bay and*Canada to the United 
States, Florida, and Mexico. 
The Pintail has been met with in Yorkshire, at Walton 
and Scarthingwell, and also near York. It occurs, but rarely, 
on Croxby Lake, Lincolnshire, as the Rev. R. P. Alington has 
informed me; also at times in Northamptonshire, the Hon. 
T. L. Powys says. In Cornwall one was shot at Pennance 
Point, near Falmouth, in the year 1845; and a second at 
Swanpool, in 1847. In Derbyshire it occasionally is seen on 
the Trent; also in Cambridgeshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, 
and Hampshire. In Norfolk, not uncommonly near Yarmouth. 
This species has been known to pair with the Common 
Duck, and a specimen of the progeny was exhibited before 
the Zoological Society, in 1831, by the Hon. Twisleton Fiennes; 
also with the Scaup, the Mallard, and the Bernicle. Lord 
Stanley had a female Pintail which paired with a Wigeon, 
and had eggs two successive seasons. 
Jn Scotland one was observed on the River Dovern, near 
Banff, in Aberdeenshire. Others have been noticed both in 
