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BRITISH BIRDS, 
PINTAIL DUCK. 
SEA PHEASANT, CRACKER, OR WINTER DUCK. 
{^Anas acuta, Lin . — Le Canard a longue queue, BufF.) 
This handfome looking bird is twenty-eight 
inches in length, and thirty-eight in breadth, and 
weighs about twenty-four ounces. The bill is ra- 
ther long, black in the middle, and blue on the 
edges : the irides reddifh : the head and throat are 
of a rufty brown, mottled with fmall dark fpots, 
and tinged behind the ears with purple : the nape 
and upper part of the neck are dulky, margined by 
a narrow white line, which runs down on each fide, 
and falling into a broader ftripe of the fame colour, 
extends itfelf on the fore part as far as the breaft i 
