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XXVI. A Description of a new Species of. Scolopax lately dis- 
covered in the British Islands: with Observations on the Anas 
glocitans of Pallas, and a Description of the Female of that 
. Species. By N. A. Vigors, Esq. A.M. F.L.S. Communicated 
by the Zoological Club of the Linnean Society. 
Read November 2, 1824. 
Tux Natural History of these islands has been studied with so 
much science ànd assiduity, and the investigation attended with 
so much success, that any addition to the number of our species, 
more particularly in the higher classes of the Vertebrated Ani- 
mals, must be of rare occurrence, and productive of considerable 
interest. It is therefore with much pleasure that I submit to this 
Society the following description of a species of Scolopax, new 
to the Ornithology of the British Islands ; and of a species of the 
Linnean genus Anas, wliich, from its having been until recently 
but once only observed in this country, and from the specimen 
which was described not being at present in existence, or ca- 
pable of being referred to, has been for some time considered 
as possessing but a doubtful claim to a place in the British 
Fauna. 
Ordo. 
