566 PINTAIL AND LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



500. Pintail. Si: Zool. il. N' 282. — Anas acuta, Aler, Ahlfogel, Fauti. Suec.'^" 126. 



Le Canard L longue queue, Fl. Enl. 959. — Latham, iii. — Lev. MuS. 



— Bl.Mits. - 



"With bill black an the middle ; blueifh on the fides : head and 



half the neck rufty brown : from the ears, half way of each fide 



' of the neck, a white line, bounded by black, points downwards : 



. lower hind part of the neck, back, and fides, marked with white and 



dufky waved lines : fore part of the neck, breaft, and belly, white : 



coverts of the wings cinereous -, loweft tipt with dull orange : fecon- 



daries marked with green, black, and white: exterior feathers of the 



tail afh-colored ; middle black, and three inches longer than the reft : 



legs afli-colored. Female brown, fpotted with black. Weight 



twenty-four ounces. Length two feet four. Extent three feet 



two inches. 



Place. Appears about iV^wll?^;^ in winter : breeds in the north : \n Europe^ 



about the White Sea. Migrates fouthward at approach of the froft. 



Is feen in Sweden about fourteen days in the fpring, on its paffagc 



northward : and in autumn repafles the fame way to the fouth. Vifit 



th^Orkniesm great flocks in the winter. In the Ruffian empire, 



extends to Kamtfchatka. 



501. Long- fir. ZW. ii. N°283. — Anas hyemalis. Wlnter-and, Fa««. 5'aff. N" 125. 



TAILED. Anas Glacialis, Lin. Syfi. zo^.—Pb. Tra«/. Ixii. 4i8.--MaIe, Edvn, 2%^, 



Female, 156. — Latham, m. 

 Le Canard de Miclon, PL Enl. 954- — 'Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



TT^ With bill black, orange in the middle : forehead, fides of the 

 head, and neck, pale brown, dafhed with rofe-color : beneath 

 each ear a large dufky fpot points downwards : hind part of the head 

 and neck, throat, and breaft, white : back and be'Iv black : fides and 

 vent feathers white : fcapulars long and white : coverts of the wings 

 glofly black : primaries dufky: fecondaries dark rufty brown-: two 

 middle feathers of the tail black, and four inches longer than the 

 others, which are white : legs red. Femalej crown dufl<y : cheeks 



white ; 



