Show pintail ducks pintail ducks are trim and band handsome handsom SOM but usually shy ever on the alert for danger clanger they are very rapid fliers Pint pintails alls are not noisy ducks the only notes they utter are quacks which sound very much like the quack of the common mallard in the field male pintail ducks may be recognized by their white bellies and the consa ICU ous white line which runs up lip the side of the head and neck the long iong pointed central tall feathers are another distinction and so are the H light lit edgings eddings of the rear of tile the pintails wings when tile the duct duck Is in flight the female pintails are slender streaked brown ducks 51 similar milar to the female mallard but more ore slender and without the white bor dered blue patch on the wing |