ANAS ACUTA (FGEMINA.) 
FEMALE PINTAIL, 
As the female of this fpecies differs mijch 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 confider- 
ably fliorter 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 fuccefs ; we have not heard of any inftance of 
their breeding in confinement. 
^oth our figures were taken froiji a painting, executed 
for the late William Curtis, and now in poffeflion of 
Arthur Harrison, Efq. of Parliament-Street, to whom 
we are indebted for this, and many other obliging communi- 
cations. 
