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For example, if we may judge by the numerous experiments that thus far have been made, as we certainly have a right to do, no man can successfully breed and rear in captivity, on a commercial basis, the canvasback duck, teal, pintail duck, ruffed grouse or quail.
And there is the well-known `pintail, and the `pochard' or `red-head; and the `mallard, from which comes the common domestic variety, and the `scoter, and `surf, and `velvet, and `dusky, ducks these last four being all, more or less, of a dark colour. And there are the `shell-drakes, or `fishers, that swim low in the water, dive and fly well, but walk badly, and feed altogether on fish.
The hero's valet, Jacob Brush, and the heroine's lady's- maid, Jacintha Pintail, are both humorous and good in their way. Why it should be so, we do not pretend to say; but it certainly does appear to us that Mr. Tudor is more at home in the servants' hall than in the lady's boudoir. 'Abominable scoundrel! said Charley.
Pintail, drake, plumage of; pairing with a wild duck. Pintail Duck, pairing with a widgeon. Pipe-fish, filamentous; marsupial receptacles of the male. Pipits, moulting of the. Pipra, modified secondary wing-feathers of male. Pipra deliciosa. Pirates stridulus, stridulation of. Pitcairn island, half-breeds on. Pithecia leucocephala, sexual differences of colour in.
Length up to thirty inches, though the body is not larger than a Mallard's; but the neck is longer, and the two middle feathers of the tail are from five to nine inches long; these are slender and sharp, whence the name Pintail. Male: head and neck dark-colored, with a long white stripe lengthwise on each side. Back and sides finely waved with black and gray. Breast and belly pure white.
A great many persons have made persistent attempts to breed the canvasback, redhead, mallard, black duck, pintail, teal and other species, on a commercial basis. So far as I am aware the mallard is the only wild duck that has been bred in sufficient numbers to slaughter for the markets.
The drive home in mid-day sun with no shade was pretty considerably hot, through miles of unsheltered, hot, dusty road, but with regular tiger jungle on either side! Some of us slept for me there was too much heat and too much to see for that. I think we got fourteen duck. There were pochard and pintail and one like a mallard. The pochard are good to eat here.
Winter passed by, and the next spring the pintail seemed to have become a convert to her blandishments, for they nested and produced seven or eight young ones." What the charm may have been in these several cases, beyond mere novelty, we cannot even conjecture. Mr.
Hewitt states that a wild duck, reared in captivity, "after breeding a couple of seasons with her own mallard, at once shook him off on my placing a male Pintail on the water. It was evidently a case of love at first sight, for she swam about the new-comer caressingly, though he appeared evidently alarmed and averse to her overtures of affection. From that hour she forgot her old partner.
Most of the domestic varieties you see in the barnyard look like the wild ones, but some are pure white. They can all sleep standing on one leg, with the head turned around so far that the bill points backward as it rests on the bird's back. The Pintail
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