174 ANATID.T:. 



Dafila acuta, PINTAIL. 



Anas acuta Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 123 : Sweden. 



Dafila acuta (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 124 ; 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 1895, p. 270 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 429. 



Acuta = sharp, pointed; from acuo=I. sharpen. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Resident, which has 

 bred during recent years in the Orkney Islands and on Loch 

 Leven, in Kinross, and occasionally in the Shetlands, the 

 Outer and Inner Hebrides, and other parts of Scotland ; 

 possibly also in Ireland. It is a regular Winter Visitor 

 between September and April to our coasts, and is occa- 

 sionally found inland, but is not very numerous. 



General Distribution. The Pintail inhabits the greater 

 part of the northern Hemisphere, and breeds in both the Old 

 and New Worlds from about 72 N. latitude, southwards to 

 about 50 N. ; also in southern Spain, the Rhone delta and 

 Hungary. In winter it ranges to north Africa, including 

 Egypt and southern Abyssinia ; also to India, Ceylon, Burma, 

 China, Borneo, and even the Hawaiian Islands. In America 

 it winters in Panama and the West Indies. 



Genus NETTA Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. 1829, p. 102. 

 Type : N. rufina (Pall.). 

 Netta = rnTa, a Duck; from reuj=I swim. 



Netta rufina. RKD-CRESTED POCHARD. 



Anas PUfina Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs, A pp. 1773, 

 p. 713 : S.E. Russia. 



Fuligula rufina (Pall.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 128. 

 Netta rufina Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 1895, p. 328 ; 

 Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 441. 



Riifina, apparently an adjectival form from r/us=red. 



Distribution in the British Islands. An occasional Autumn 

 and Winter Visitor, chiefly met with on the east and south 



