PLATE CXCIV. 

 ANAS ACUTA. 



PINTAIL. Fem, 

 Anseres. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill convex and obtufe, the edges divided into lamellate teeth : 

 tongue fringed and obtufe : three fore-toes connected, the hind one 

 folitary. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Tail pointed, long, beneath black : hind-head each fide with a white 

 line ; back waved cinereous. 



Female rufous brown and dufky varied : wing-fpot pale brown, 

 margined above and beneath with a white line : two middle tail feathers 

 not elongated. 



Anas Acuta : cauda acuminato elongata fubtus nigra, occipite utrin- 

 que linea alba, dorfo cinereo undulato. Linn. Fn, 

 Suec. 126. — Scop. Ann. 1. n. 73. — Georg. it. jt, 

 16Q.—Lath. Gen. Si/n. 2. p. 5^6. n. 72. 

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