. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . with great have never seen it dive on seeing the flash of a gun; butwhen approached it always swims to the opposite part of thepond, and, when the danger increases, flies off. On beingwounded, it sometimes by diving makes its escape among thegrass, where it squats and remains concealed. It walks withease, and prettily, often making i
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . with great have never seen it dive on seeing the flash of a gun; butwhen approached it always swims to the opposite part of thepond, and, when the danger increases, flies off. On beingwounded, it sometimes by diving makes its escape among thegrass, where it squats and remains concealed. It walks withease, and prettily, often making incursions upon the land. 64 QUEHQUEDULA STREPERA. ■when the ponds are not surrounded by trees, for the purposeof searching for food. It nibbles the tender shoots and bladesof grasses with apparent pleasure, and will feed on beech nuts,acorns, and seeds of all kinds of graminese, as well as on tad-poles, small fishes, and leeches. After rain it alights in thecorn-fields, like the Mallard, and picks up the scattered grainsof maize. The common notes or cry of the female have aconsiderable resemblance to those of the female Mallard; butthe cry of the male is weaker, as in that species. 65 QUERQUEDULA ACUTA. PINTAIL TEAL. PINTAIL DUCK. WINTER /. FiQ. 63. Anas acuta. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 202. Anas acuta. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 864. Pintail Duck. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Supplt. Canard a longue queue ou Pilet. Anas acuta. Temm. Man. dOrn. II. 839. Common Pintail. Querquedula acuta. Selb. Ilust. II. 311. Anas acuta. Pintail. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 232. Dafila acuta. Bonap. Comp. List, 56. Male with the hill two inches and two-twelfths long, ni?ie-twelfths hroad toward the end, black, with the sides toioardthebase light blue; scapidars and inner secondaries elongated andacuminate; middle tail-feathers long, and tapering to a finepoint; head and throat dusky broion ; a longitudinal band ofgreenish-black on the hind neck, and two ichite bands continu-ous with the white of the lower parts
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