ANAS ACUTA 



(FCEMINA.) 



F E MA L E PINTAIL. 



the female of this fpecies differs much in colour and 

 fize from the male, we give the accompanying figure. It is 

 "not more than half the length of the male, and it weighs about 

 twenty-four ounces ; its form is like, but its neck is consider- 

 ably fhorter than, that of the male ; and it has not the two 

 centre feathers in the tail fo much longer than the others. 



Repeated attempts have been made to domefticate this fpecies 

 but without fuccefe ; we have not heard of any inflance of 

 their breeding in confinement. 



Both our figures were taken from a painting, executed 

 for the late William Curtis, and now in pone Hi on of 

 Arthur Harrison, Efq. of Parliament-Street, to whom 

 we are indebted for this, and many bther obliging communis 

 cations. 



