PINTAIL. 



COMMON PINTAIL. PINTAIL DUCK. CRACKEE. 

 SEA PHEASANT. WINTER DUCK. 



Anas acuta, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Querqutdula acuta, SELBY. 



Dafila caudacuta, GoULD. 



Anas A Duck. Acuta Sharp. 



IN Europe this bird is said to be common in Lapland, Russia, 

 Norway, Sweden, Holland, Germany, and France; occurring 

 also in Spain and Italy. In Asia it has been seen in 

 Siberia, Tartary, Japan, China, Asia Minor, Persia, and the 

 vicinity of the Caspian Sea. It belongs also to North America, 

 and is found from Hudson's Bay and Canada to the United 

 States, Florida, and Mexico. 



The Pintail has been met with in Yorkshire, at Walton 

 and Scarthingwell, and also near York. It occurs, but rarely, 

 on Croxby Lake, Lincolnshire, as the Rev. R. P. Alington has 

 informed me; also at times in Northamptonshire, the Hon. 

 T. L. Powys says. In Cornwall one was shot at Pennance 

 Point, near Falmouth, in the year 1845; and a second at 

 Swanpool, in 1847. In Derbyshire it occasionally is seen on 

 the Trent; also in Cambridgeshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, 

 and Hampshire. In Norfolk, not uncommonly near Yarmouth. 



This species has been known to pair with the Common 

 Duck, and a specimen of the progeny was exhibited before 

 the Zoological Society, in 1831, by the Hon. Twisleton Fiennes; 

 also with the Scaup, the Mallard, and the Bernicle. Lord 

 Stanley had a female Pintail which paired with a Wigeon, 

 and had eggs two successive seasons. 



In Scotland one was observed on the River Dovern, near 

 Banff, in Aberdeenshire. Others have been noticed both in 



