duck. 337 



102.— PINTAIL DUCK. 



Anas acuta, Ind. Orn. ii. 864. Lin. i. 202. Fn. suec. No. 126. Gm. Lin. i. 528. 



Scop. i. No. 73. Brun. in App. Muller, No. 122. Kram. 340. 9. Georgi, 160. 



Fn. Arag. 75. 3. Fn. Helv. Deeouv. russ. i. 162. Sepp. t. 92, 93. Tern. Man. 



541. Zrf. £d. 2d. 839. 

 Anas caudacuta, Raii, 147. A. 5. Ttf. 192. 13. Will. 289. t. 73. JVwcA, t. 160— 



168. Klein, 133. 15. Id. 139. 32. S/oaw. Jam. 324. xi. Bar<r. 7Vav. 292. 



Amer. Orn. viii. 72. pi. 68. f. 3. 

 Anas longicauda, Bris. vi. 369. t. 34. f. 1, 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 459. Gerin. v. t. 581. 

 Canard a longue Queue, Buf. ix. 199. t. 13. PI. enl. 954 — male. 

 Der Pfeilschwantz, Bechst, Deuts. ii. 651. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. p. 1116. 

 Die Spiessente, Schmid, Vog. p. 152. t. 130. 

 Tzitzihoa, Raii, 175. 



Sea Pheasant, or Cracker, Will. Eng. 376. pi. 73. Albin, ii. pi. 94, 95. 

 Pintail, Gen. Syn. vi. 526. Id. Sup. ii. 352. Br. Zool. \\. No. 282. Id. fol. 156. 



pi. Q. 8.— male. Q — female. Id. 1812. ii. p. 266. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 500. 



Bewick, ii. pi. p. 360. Lin. Trans, iv. 110. pl.xiii. f. 6 — .the trachea. Lewin, vii. 



pi. 261. Walcot,u pi. 72. Pult, Dors, p. 21. Orn. Die. Sf Supp. Graves 



Br. Orn. 



LESS than a Wild Duck ; length twenty-eight inches ; breadth 

 thirty-six ; weight thirty-two ounces. Bill two inches and a half 

 long, and black, on the sides bluish ; head, and for an inch of the 

 neck before, rusty purplish brown ; nape dusky ; forepart and sides 

 of the neck white, a little mottled with dusky, the white rising 

 upwards on each side at the back part, in a narrow streak, towards 

 the hindhead ; the neck long and slender, hind part of it and back 

 greyish white, finely barred with black ; sides of the body the same, 

 but paler ; scapulars long, pointed, and margined with very pale 

 cream-colour ; wings pale dusky brown ; across them, first, a pale 

 rufous bar, then a broad deep copper one, edged with black, and 

 below this a narrow one of white ; the two middle tail feathers are 

 black, and more than three inches longer than the rest, the others 

 dusky, edged with white ; the under parts of the body white ; vent 

 black, the sides of it white ; legs lead-coloured. 



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