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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
GENVS—Dtjfi/a. 
170. Da^/a acuta. Pintail. 
A winter visitor to the coasts of the county and Isle 
of Wight, but not in any great numbers. 
This bird does not commonly visit inland waters, but 
specimens have been procured at Wolmer (Reid), and 
at Avington, the latter in November, 1897.^ 
Lord Malmesbury's collection at Heron Court was killed 
by Lord Wimborne on the estate in January i6th, 1891. 
The Hon. J. Scott-Montagu has a young female in his 
possession that he shot out of a lot of three or four, of 
which he says that circumstances pointed to their having 
been reared on one of the lakes on the Beaulieu Estate 
about the year 1 894. 
The pintail does not figure very largely in Colonel 
Hawker's list of wild fowl bagged between 1802 and 
1853 — thirty-nine only being killed, and those usually 
singly. On one occasion, however, — February 24th, 1845, — 
eight were shot out of a bunch of ten. 
Genus— 
171. Anas boscas. Wild Dock. 
Mallard. 
A resident, generally distributed throughout the county 
and Isle of Wight. 
' "Zoologist." .Vfarcb, 189S. 
