20. PINTAIL. 
Descrip- 
TION. 
PINTAIL DUCK. Cuass 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; the feet small, of a reddish brown 
color. 
Fist. Pots. ix. 
Enl. 959. 
Schwalbenscheif. Kram. 340. 
Rati Syn. av. 147. 
Anas acuta. Gm. Lan. 528. 
Aler, Ahlvogel. Fazn. Suec. 
sp. 126. 
Anas acuta. A. cauda acumi- 199. Pl. 
nata elongata subtus nigra, 
occipite utrinque linea alba, © 
dorso cinereoundulato. Lath. 
Ind. orn. 864. id. Syn. vi. 
526. id. Sup. 11. 354. 
Anas caudacuta (ein spitzsch- 
wantz) Gesner av. 121. 
Aldr. av. iii. 97. 
Sea Pheasant, 
Wil. orn. 376. 
Le Canard a longue queue. 
Brisson av. vi. 369. tab. 34. 
or Cracker. 
Fasan-Ente. Frisch, ii. 160. 
Brunnich in append. 
Aglek. Crantz’s Greenl. i. 80. 
Scopoli, No. 73. 
Br. Zool. 156. ‘Tab. Q. 8. 
Arct. Zool. ii. 291. 
Tue 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, 
