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Pintail

noun
1.
Long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers.  Synonyms: Anas acuta, pin-tailed duck.





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"Pintail" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dafila acuta, Linnaeus. French, "Pilet," "Canard pilet." The Pintail is an occasional autumn and Winter visitant, but never very common. I have one specimen, a female, killed in Guernsey in November, 1871, and this Mr. Couch told me was the only one he had had through his hands whilst in ...
— Birds of Guernsey (1879) • Cecil Smith


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