6+ 
This beautiful bird, which Mr. Gould has done us the honour to 
call by our name, was in the possession of the Zoological Society, 
and was received from Australia; but since then many more specimens 
_ have been brought over. 
DAFILA UROPHASIANUS. 
Daf.—Mas.—Cauda pallidé rufis; dorso, capite, colloque pbrunneis, 
_ marginibus pennarum saturatioribus. 
Daf. Fem.—Mare similis, sed subtus fuscus. 
PINTAIL. 
Pintail, wih the tail pale rufous; the back, head, and neck brown ; 
the edges of the feathers lighter. 
Fem. like the male, but below fuscous. 
IN. , 
Length...... 24% DUE o cams 2 TAS acs 3 
Male: with the head, neck, and body grey-brown; the edges of 
the feathers light fuscous; cheeks, throat, and upper part of the fore 
neck white; wing coverts fuscous; speculum bright green, anterior 
to which there is a stripe of pale-red fuscous; posteriorly a narrow 
one of black, then a broad one of pale-reddish fuscous; tail and - 
upper tail coverts pale reddish; bill and legs fuscous, the former 
with an orange patch on each side. 
Female: similar to the male, but much smaller; and bakin 
brownish fuscous. 
Anas urophasianus, King ...... Zool. Jour. 4. 351. 
Although some difference exists in length between our specimens 
of this bird and that described by Captain King as above, and also 
a, trifling one in colouring, we have been induced to place them as 
one, both having been received from the west coast of South America, 
placing ours the smallest asthe female. Mr. Vigors, however, makes 
no mention of the orange-marking on each side of the bill, which we 
suspect to be only apparent in all old birds during the season of 
love. The buff colour on the wing also changes to white during 
certain times of the year in all the Pintails. 3 Sikes 
