. Ornithology and oölogy of New England [microform] : containing full descriptions of the birds of New England and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature : together with a complete history of their habits, times of arrival and departure ... : with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. I. 492 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. DAFILA ACUTA. —Jenyns. The Pintail; Sprigtail. Anns acuta, Linntcus. Syst. Nat., L (1766) 202. Wib. Am. Cm., VIIL (1814). AiKl. Or
. Ornithology and oölogy of New England [microform] : containing full descriptions of the birds of New England and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature : together with a complete history of their habits, times of arrival and departure ... : with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. I. 492 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. DAFILA ACUTA. —Jenyns. The Pintail; Sprigtail. Anns acuta, Linntcus. Syst. Nat., L (1766) 202. Wib. Am. Cm., VIIL (1814). AiKl. Orn. Biot,'., IIL (1S35) 214; V. 616. lb., UMs Am., VL (1843) 260. JJaJikt acuta, Bonaparte. List (1838). Anas {boschas) acuta, Nuttall. Man., IL (1834) 380. Deschu'tion. Tail of sixteen feathers; bill black above and laterally at the base; the sides and beneath blue; head and upper part of neek uniform dark-brown, glossed wtli green and purple behind; inferior part of neek. breast, and under parts white; the white of neek passes up to the nape, separating,' the brown, and itseU ,s divided dorsiUv bv black, which, below, passes into the gray of the back; tiic back anteriorly and th(> -ides are finelv lined transversely with black and white; the wings are plain .,nd bluish--rav; the'greater coverts with a terminal bar of purplish-bull, below which is aVcnish-piirple speculum, margined behind by black, and lipped with white; longest tertials striped with silvery and greenish-black; scai-ulars black, edged with silvery; crissum and elongated tail feathers black; the (oriner edged '"'Female with only a trace of the markings of the wing; the green of the specu- lum brownish, with a few green spot.; the feathers of the back are brown, with a broad U or V-shaped brownish-yellow bar on each feather anteriorly; sometimes those bars appear in the shape of broad transverse lines. I eiigth, thirtv inches; wing, eleven; tail, eight and sixty one-hundredths; tarsus, one and seventy-
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