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Definition of Pin-tailed duck
1. Noun. Long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pin-tailed Duck
Literary usage of Pin-tailed duck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prairie and Forest: A Description of the Game of North America, with by Parker Gillmore (1874)
"pin-tailed duck. Sprig-tailed, pheasant, long-tailed, and pin-tailed duck are
the names by which these handsome birds are known in different portions of the ..."
2. The Mastaba of Ptahhetep and Akhethetep at Saqqareh by Norman de Garis Davies (1900)
"106, Pth., xli.. pin-tailed duck Avith wings over back, dropping on to water or
hovering before settling: fig. 91, /'///., xxxii. 3. ..."
3. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael, James Carmichael Watson, Angus Matheson (1900)
"It keeps to the open sounds of the Outer Hebrides, while its congener, the
pin-tailed duck, keeps still further out and exclusively to the open Atlantic, ..."
4. Prairie and Forest: A Description of the Game of North America, with by Parker Gillmore (1874)
"pin-tailed duck. Sprig-tailed, pheasant, long-tailed, and pin-tailed duck are
the names by which these handsome birds are known in different portions of the ..."
5. Prairie and Forest: A Description of the Game of North America, with by Parker Gillmore (1874)
"Sprig-tailed, pheasant, long-tailed, and pin-tailed duck are the names by which
these handsome birds are known in different portions of the North American ..."
6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1884)
"pin-tailed duck, 1 с (ill.) ; mallard, 2 be (ill.) ; shoveller or spoon-bill,
289, 1 b; Muscovy, 1 c. Sea ducks, 2 a. Scaup duck. ..."
7. Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin by Laurence Binyon (1900)
"(I) pin-tailed duck. The duck in the water, the drake on land. Water colours on
vellum ; oJ x 5J in. 7. Two on one mount, roy., viz. ..."
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