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brown ; the tatsi and toes are of a dingy yellowish broWn ; the inter- 

 digital membranes dusky ; the claws brcjWn ; the head and upper neck 

 are umber brown; the lower neck all round dull ash grey, the feathers 

 terminally edged with paler ; the lower parts are white, but the sides 

 of the body and rump, with part of the abdomen, are grey ; the axillars 

 and lower wing-coverts brownish grey ; the back and scapulars are 

 deep ash grey, but on the hind part of back that colour shades into black ; 

 the tail dark brown, tinged with grey ; the smaller wing-coverts are 

 deep grey, many of them tipped with pale grey ; the primaries, their 

 coverts, four outer secondaries, and five inner, with their coverts brown- 

 ish black ; the seven other secondaries pure white, as are their coverts, 

 unless at the base. 



"Length. — To end of tail 16 inches, expanse 28, wing 8-25, tail 3'25> 

 bill along the ridge 1 '25, tarsus 1 •25." — Mac Gillivray, Br. B. ex Str- 

 F. vii. 441. 



Hab.-^Sind, Lucknow {Bonavia) North Afghanistan. 

 This species has not to my knowledge been obtained in Sind during 

 the last thirteen years. " Sir A. Burnes obtained a specimen on the 

 Indus, which is figured among his drawings in the possession of the 

 Asiatic Society." 



Dafila, Leach. ; Gray, Gen. Birds, iii. p. 61 5. 



Tail with the central feathers narrow and much lengthened beyond 

 the rest ; neck long ; bill elevated at the base, of nearly uniform width; 

 1st primary of wing longest. 



Dafila acuta. The Pintail. 



Dafila acuta, Lin. ; P. E. 954 ; Gould B. Ear. pi Sbb;Jc>d. B.Ind 

 iii p. 803; Str. F. i. 2(31 ; iv. 29, 200; Murraij, lldbJc, Zool.,^-c.,biad, 

 p. 235; Hmne, Game Birds hid. p- U'O. {Siuk^L^ar, N. W. Provinces, 

 Kokarallec, Drecgush, Sind.)— The PusJail. 



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