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FERRUGINOUS
D.
Description.
Place.
72.
<- PINTAIL D.
D escrittion.
Anas rutila, Faun. Suec. N ’ 134.
Ferruginous Duck, Br. Z00L N° 285. pi. 99— Jr ft. tool. p. 576. N.
WE IG H T twenty ounces. The bill long, and flatted,
rounded a little at the bafe, ferrated along the edges of
each mandible, and furnilhed with a nail at the end of the upper
j colour a pale blue : head, neck, and whole upper part of
the head, an agreeable reddilh brown: throat, breaft, and belly,
the fame colour, but paler: the legs of a pale blue : webs
black.
One of this fpecies was killed in Lincolnjhire. Found in the
Swedijh rivers, but rarely. Mr. Pennant has alfo received it from
Denmark.
Anas acuta, Lin. Syji. i. p. 202. 28.— Faun. Suec. N° 126.— Scefi. Ann.
i, N° 73.— Brun. in Append .^-Muller, N° 12.2.— Kram. El. p. 340*
g.— Frifcb. pi. 160.— Geergi Reife, p. 166.
Le Canard a longue queue, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 369. 16. pi. 34. fig. I. 2.—
Buf. Oif. in. p. 199. pi. 13.— Pl.Enl. 954.
Sea Pheafant, or Cracker, Rail Sjn. p. 147. A. 5.—-fiFi'll. Orn. p. 376.
pi. 73.— Allin, ii. pi. 94. 95.
Pintail, Br. Zool. ii. N° l iz .— ArB. Zeol. N° 504.
Br. Mu/. Lev. Mu/.
T E S S than the Wild Duck: length twenty-eight inches:
weight twenty-four ounces. Bill long and blackj on the
fides blueilh: the head, and for an inch of the neck before,
nifty purplifh brown: nape dulky : fore part and fides of the
neck white, a little mottled with dulky, the white riling upa
wards
wards on each fide, at the back part, in a narrow ftreak toward
the hind head: the hind part of the neck and back greyilh
white, finely barred with black: fides of the body the fame,
but paler : fcapulars black, long, pointed, and margined with
very pale cream-colour: wings pale dulky brown; acrofs them,
firft a pale rufous bar, then a broad deep copper-coloured
one, edged with black; and below this a narrow one of white :
the two middle tail feathers are black, and more than three inches
longer than the reft; the others dulky, edged with white: the
under parts of the body are white: vent black; the fides of it
white: legs lead-coloured.
The female is fmaller. The head and neck dulky, minutely
ftreaked with brown: back brown, the feathers margined with
pale reddilh white; the fcapulars with pale rufous: wing coverts
as the back, but margined deeper with white : acrofs the wing a
cream-coloured bar, bounded above and below with white:
tail as in the male, but the two middle feathers not elongated.
The young males remain of a greyilh brown, not greatly unlike
the plumage of the females, till February, when they firft
gain the proper drefs of their fex.
The male is furnilhed with a fmall labyrinth.
This is a pretty common fpecies, but not in fuch plenty In
England as in many parts of the continent, in the northern parts of
which it breeds. Common in the Ruffian dominions *, as far as
Kamtfchatka. In Sweden and Denmark in the fpring ; and breeds
' • In troops of hundreds on thé borders of the Dm.— Deceuv. RuJ/. i. p.
162.
Female-
Place a n s
Mannersabout