PINTAIL DUCK. 
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Of the natural history of this species little is known ; like most of 
its congeners, it only occasionally visits us, and retires to a less inha- 
bited part of the north to breed. Temminck says he received a spe- 
cimen from Senegal, another from the Cape of Good Hope, and a 
third from North America, differing in no respect from those killed in 
Holland, upon the banks of the rivers of which country it sometimes, 
though rarely, forms its nest, in which it lays four or five eggs, of a 
yellowish colour, with brown spots. 
PIGMY SANDPIPER. — A variety of the Pigmy Curlew. 
PINE GROSBEAK (Pyrrhula enucleator, Temminck.) 
*Corytheus Enucleator, Flem. Br. Anim. p. 76. — Bouvreuil Dur-Bec. Temm. Man. 
d’Orn. 1. p. 333. — Greatest Bullfinch, 'Edw. t. 123. 124. M. and F. — Pine 
Grosbeak, Br. Zool. 1. No. 114. t. 49. f. 2. — Arct. Zool. 2. No. 209. — 16. Supp. 
p. 64. — Lath. Syn. 3. p. 111. 5. — Ib. Supp. p. 148. — Lewin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 
68. — Wale. Syn. t. 207. — Lon. Br. Birds, 1. t. 17. — Mont. Orn. Diet. — Haw- 
finch, Selby, pi. 53. * * fig. 1. & 2. 8vo. p. 257.* 
This is larger than the haw-finch ; weight rather more than two 
ounces ; length above seven inches ; bill thick at the base, and hooked 
at the point ; colour dusky ; irides hazel. The head, neck, breasts, and 
rump, are crimson : the back and lesser coverts of the wing black, 
edged with reddish ; the greater wing coverts tipped with white, form- 
ing two bars on the wing ; quill feathers dusky, edged on their exter- 
nal webs with dirty white ; lower part of the belly and vent ash- 
coloured; the tail a little forked, dusky, margined whitish ; legs brown: 
the female, brown, tinged with green ; in some yellowish. 
This bird is met with in this kingdom only in the most northern 
parts, inhabiting the pine forests of Scotland, and feeding on the seeds 
of that tree. It is supposed they breed in those parts, as Mr. Pennant 
saw them flying about the pines in the forest of Invercauld, Aberdeen- 
shire, and states his belief that they breed there; but after many en- 
quiries during his excursions in Scotland, Selby thinks he had not suf- 
ficient grounds for this belief. Latham says they are found in North 
America, and Hudson’s Bay ; that they make their nests in trees, at a 
small height from the ground, composed of sticks, lined with feathers, 
laying four white eggs. It is also found in the forests of Siberia, Lap- 
land, and the northern parts of Russia. 
PINK. — A name for the Chaffinch, expressive of its call. 
PINNATIPEDES (Linn^us). — * Wading birds, (^Grallatores, 
Illiger,) having their toes fringed with membranes.* 
PINNOCK. — A name for the Tom-tit. 
PINTAIL DUCK (^Dajila Leach.) 
Anas acuta, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 202. 28. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 528. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. p. 864. 81. — Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. p. 839. — Anas caudacuta, Ttaii, Syn. p. 
