. Indian sporting birds . ears I never missed seeing it, and in 1900and 1901 it could fairly be called common. I have seen a dozenor more in a good season, but I should say not twenty-five percent, were males. The male in undress, by the way, is almostexactly like the female, but has the inner quills black and grey,rather like their colouring, when long and curved, in the fullplumage ; the true sickle feathers, like the Mandarins fans, donot appear till the rest of the plumage is perfect. Fresh-caughtbirds are very wild, and the species is said to be a strong flyer. Pintail. Dafila acuta. Sink
. Indian sporting birds . ears I never missed seeing it, and in 1900and 1901 it could fairly be called common. I have seen a dozenor more in a good season, but I should say not twenty-five percent, were males. The male in undress, by the way, is almostexactly like the female, but has the inner quills black and grey,rather like their colouring, when long and curved, in the fullplumage ; the true sickle feathers, like the Mandarins fans, donot appear till the rest of the plumage is perfect. Fresh-caughtbirds are very wild, and the species is said to be a strong flyer. Pintail. Dafila acuta. Sink-par, Hindustani. The elegant clipper-built pintail is at once conspicuous byhis racing lines among all our ducks, his long neck and longsharp tail making him conspicuous either in the air or on thewater. His colouring is chiefly remarkable for the large amountof white, this reaching below from the liver-brown head to theblack stern ; the upper-parts are of the finely lined grey socommon among the males of the duck
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