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er for it, managing finally to redeem it 

 from the hands of the mechanical bird- 

 stuffer in time to preserve some sem- 

 blance of its originality. It combines 

 remarkably well the characteristic 

 shape and markings of each species, 

 having the head and bill of the pintail 

 somewhat larger, with a mixture of the 

 mallard green and pintail bronze, the 

 chocolate breast of the mallard, £intail 

 back and wing coverts; mallard wing 

 markings, pintail tail, with the long 



feather partly curled, the mallard tail 

 coverts upper and lower and the red 

 feet of the mallard. The mallard ring 

 on the neck runs into the white stripes 

 of the back of the pintail neck and 

 does not completely encircle it. The 

 only other record I have ever heard of 

 this hybrid was made in 1889, when 

 Mr. Cross, of Toronto, received a speci- 

 men shot at Scugog Lake, Ont., and 

 which was mounted, exhibited and de- 

 scribed at a meeting of the biological 

 section of the Canadian institute. 



