NATATORES. 



PINTAIL DUCK. 



253 

 ANA TIDJE. 



Anas 



Querquedula* 

 Anas 



Dafila caudacuta^ 

 A nas acuta, 



THE PINTAIL DUCK. 



Anas acuta. 



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. 



Common Pintail, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol ii. p. 311. 



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



Pintail Duck, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. v. 



Canard piktj TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 838. 



THIS handsome Duck is a winter visiter 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. 



