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PINTAIL DUCK. 



Class II. 



back is brown, growing paler towards the sides ; 

 the tips and pinions of the wings grey; the 

 quil feathers brown; the rest of a greyish 

 brown; the speculum or spot purple, edged 

 with white : in the female, the spot is blue, and 

 all the other colors are fainter. The tail is 

 short and white ; the vent feathers of a bright 

 brown, spotted with darker ; the legs short and 

 slender 5 the feet small, of a reddish brown 

 color. 



20. Pintail. Anas acuta. A. cauda acumi- 

 nata elongata subtus nigra, 

 occipite utrinque linea alba, 

 dorsocinereoundulato. Lath, 

 hid. orn. 864. id. Syn. vi. 

 526. id. Sup. ii. 354. 



Anas caudacuta (ein spitzsch- 

 wantz) Gesner av. 121. 



Aldr. av. iii. 97. 



Sea Pheasant, or Cracker. 

 fFih orn. 376. 



Le Canard a longue queue. 

 Brisson av. vi. 369. tab. 34. 



Hist. dois. ix. I99. PL 



Enl. 959. 

 Schwalbenscheif. Kram. 340. 

 Rail Syn. av. 147. 

 Anas acuta. Gm. Lin. 528. 

 Aler, Ahlvogel. Faun. Suec. 



sp. 126. 

 Fasan-Ente. Frisch, ii. 16O. 

 Brunmch in append. 

 Aglek. Crantz's Greenl. i. 80. 

 Scopoli, No. 73. 

 Br. Zool. 156. Tab. Q. 8. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 291. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



X HE form of this species is slender, and the 

 neck long : its weight twenty -four ounces ; its 

 length twenty»eight inches; its breadth three 

 feet two inches. The bill is black in the mid- 

 dle, blue on the sides ; the head is ferruginous, 



