PLATE CXXIX. 



Sea Phsasant, or Craker. Ray, av. p, 147. A. S 

 PiN^TAiL. Jr^. ZooL £. /. BijQ. n, 500. 

 Brit. ZooL 2. n. 2%2. 



A native of Europe, Afia, and America. Sometimes thefe birds 

 appear in fraull flocks on the Englifli coafts during the winter feafon, 

 but depart again to the northward early in the fpring. They are feen 

 at this feafon in Sweden and Denmark, and are fuppofed to breed in 

 the north of thofe kingdoms. They abound throughout the Ruffian 

 territories as far as Kamtfchatka, at which latter place they breed and 

 live till the approach of winter. According to Decouver, the fpecies 

 appears at particular feafons, in troops of feveral hundred together, on 

 the borders of the river Don. It is likewife faid to breed at Hudfon's 

 Bay, in America. 



The male of the Pintail Duck is an interefting bird, pofleffing, in 

 addition to a beautifully varied plumage, a peculiar degree of elegance 

 in its manners and general afpeft. Its length is twenty-eight inches, 

 and weight twenty-four ounces. The female, as ufual in the duck 

 tribe, fmaller, and more duflcy, and is in particular diftinguifhed by 

 having a fpot of llraw-colour on the wing inilead of violet. The 

 young males remain of a greyifh brown, not very unlike the plumage 

 of the females, till the fpring after they are hatched, when they afTurae 

 tbeir proper plumage? The flefh is e^jcelient, 



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