PINTAIL. 



Daiila acuta (Linn.). 



The male pintail has the head and upper neck wood 

 brown, darl^est on the crown, often with greenish, red- 

 dish and purple reflections. A part of the hind neck is 

 black; lower down it becomes grayish, finely barred 

 with dusky, gray and white. The front of back and sides 

 are waved with very fine cross bars of white and black. 

 Most of the wing is gray or brownish. The speculum 

 is green, in some lights coppery, margined with white, 

 tawny and black, and with a cinnamon-colored bar in 

 front. A line beginning at the back of the head and 

 passing down the side of neck is white, running into the 



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