526 



DUCK. 



7«- 

 FERRUGINOUS 



D. 



Description. 



Place. 



Anas rutila, Faun.Suec. N° 134. 



Ferruginous Duck, Br. Zool. N° 285. pi. 99. — Aril. Zool. p. 576. N. 



T17EIGHT twenty ounces. The bill long, and flatted, 

 rounded a little at the bafe, ferrated along the edges of 

 each mandible, and furnifhed with a nail at the end of the up- 

 per j colour a pale blue : head, neck, and whole upper part of 

 the head, an agreeable reddifli brown : throat, breaft, and belly, 

 the fame colour, but paler : the legs of a pale blue : webs 

 black. 



One of this fpecies was killed in Lincoln/hire. Found in the 

 Swedijh rivers, but rarely. Mr. Pennant has alfo received it from 

 Denmark. 



7*. 

 <- PINTAIL D. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Anas acuta, Lin. Sjjl. i. p. 202. 28.— Faun. Suec. N° 126. — Scop. Ann. 

 i. N° 73. — Brun. in Append.— Muller, N° lZZ.—'Kram. El. p. 34O. 

 » q.—Frifcb. pi. 1 60.— Georgi Rei/e, p. 166. 



Le Canard a longue queue, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 369. 16. pi. 34. fig. I. 2.—" 



Buf. Oif. ix. p. 199. pi. 13. — PI. Enl. 954. 

 Sea Pheafant, or Cracker, Rail Syn. p. 147. A. 5. — Will. Orn. p. 376. 



pi. 73. — Albin, ii. pi. 94. 95.. 

 Pintail, Br. Zool. ii. N° 282. — Artf. Zool. N° 500. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



ESS than the Wild Buck: length twenty-eight inches: 



weight twenty-four ounces. Bill long and black, on the 



fides blueifh : the head, and for an inch of the neck before, 



rufty purplifh brown : nape dufky : fore part and fides of the 



neck white, ar little mottled with dufky, the white riling up- 



a wards 



