. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . .S^ .324? BRITISH THE PINTAIL DUCK. SEA PHEASANT, CRACKER, OR WINTER DUCK.(Anas acuta^ Lin.—Le Canard a longue queue., BufF.) This handsome-looking bird is twenty-eight inches inlength, and thirty-eight in breadth, and weighs abouttwenty-four ounces. The bill is rather long, black in themiddle, and blue on the edges: the irides reddish: the headand throat are of a rusty brown, mottled with small darkspots, and tinged behind the ears with purple : the napeand upper part of the neck are dusky, margined by a nar-row white line,
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . .S^ .324? BRITISH THE PINTAIL DUCK. SEA PHEASANT, CRACKER, OR WINTER DUCK.(Anas acuta^ Lin.—Le Canard a longue queue., BufF.) This handsome-looking bird is twenty-eight inches inlength, and thirty-eight in breadth, and weighs abouttwenty-four ounces. The bill is rather long, black in themiddle, and blue on the edges: the irides reddish: the headand throat are of a rusty brown, mottled with small darkspots, and tinged behind the ears with purple : the napeand upper part of the neck are dusky, margined by a nar-row white line, which runs down on each side, and fall-ing into a broader stripe of the same colour, extends it-self on the fore part as far as the breast; the rest of theneck, the breast, and the upper part of the back, are ele-gantly penciled with black and white waved lines : thelower back and sides of the body are undulated in thesame manner, but with lines more freckled, less distinct. BRITISH BIRDS. S25 and paler : the scapulars are long and pointed, each featherblack down the middle, with
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