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PINTAIL DUCK. Class If. 



282. Pin- Anas caudacuta (ein fpitz- 

 tail. fchwantz) Gefner a-v. 121. 



Aldr. ciru. III. 97. 

 Sea Pheafant, or Cracker. 



iril. orn. 376. 

 Le Canard a longue queue. 

 Brijfon a-v. VI, 369. r<z£. 34. 

 Schwalbenfcheif. Kram. 340. 



Raiijyn. a<v. 1 47. 



Anas acuta. Lin. fyft. 202. 



Aler, Ahlvogel. JVtoor. «SW. 



.#. 126. 

 Fafan-Ente. Frifch, II. 160. 

 Brunnich in append. 

 Aglek. Crantz's Greenl. I. 80. 

 j?r. Zoo/. 156. Scop oli, No. 73. 



Descrip, *""jpHE form of this fpecies is (lender, and the 

 ■^ neck long : its weight twenty-four ounces : 

 its length twenty-eight inches ; its breadth one yard 

 two inches. The bill is black in the middle, blue on 

 the fides : the head is ferruginous, tinged behind 

 the ears with purple; from beneath the ears com- 

 mences a white line, which runs fome way down 

 the neck *, this line is bounded by black : the hind 

 part of the neck, the back, and fides are elegantly 

 marked with white and dufky waved lines : the 

 fore part of the neck, and belly are white. 



The fcapulars imped with black and white : the 

 coverts of the wings am colored ; the loweft tipt 

 with dull orange : the middle quil-feathers barred 

 on their cutmoft webs with green, black and 

 white : the exterior feathers of the tail are afh co- 

 lored: the two middle black, and three inches 

 longer than the others : the feet of a lead color. 

 The female is of a light brown color, fpotted with 

 black. Mr. Hartkb, in the appendix to his Lega- 



