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 NATATORE8. 



ANATIDJ1. 



ANA TID^E. 



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THE PINTAIL DUCK. 



Anas acuta. 



Anas acuta, Pintail Duck, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 266. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 372. 



The Cracker, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 122. 



Querquedula* Common Pintail, SELBT, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 311. 



Anas The JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 232. 



Dafila caudacutarf Pintail Duck, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Anas acuta, Canard Pilet, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 838. 



THIS handsome Duck is a winter visitor to this country, 

 and is one of the first among those species which are taken 

 when the decoys begin to be worked in October. It re- 

 mains here through the winter till spring, and is obtained 

 by wild-fowl shooters on the coast, as well as by fen- 

 men on the rivers and lakes of the interior ; its flight is 



* Querquedula, Selby, 1833. f Dafila, Leach and Stephens, 1824. 



