178 Account of four rare Species of. British Birds. 
country before. The one killed near Ormskirk is in the posses- 
sion of the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, and it and the present one 
are the only Pratincoles killed in Britain, I believe, that are yet 
known. Those gentlemen who have added them to their collec- 
tions have only foreign specimens. 
ANAS AFRICANA. 
Anas africana. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 875. 104. 
African Teal. Lath. Syn. vi. p. 555. 93. 
La Sarcelle d'Egypte. Planches Enluminées 1000. 
This species of duck, several of which have come within my 
knowledge, were all purchased at Leadenhall market during the 
winter scason, and were said to be taken in Lincolnshire. Dr. La- 
tham, in his very excellent work on Pirds, says they inhabit the 
rivers in Egypt; which, if so, is a remarkable circumstance, as 
few natives of so warm a country could be supposed to migrate 
so far north at that season. Buffon figures it in the Planches 
= Enluminées, to which Dr. Latham refers his African Teal. That 
figure is so good as to leave no doubt of its being the bird; other- 
wise the var. A. of the Anas Fuligula of Lath. Syn. (Anas Nyroca 
of Gmel. Syst. Nat. and of Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 869. 91.) might be 
mistaken for it. Indeed I cannot help thinking that Dr. Latham 
has described the same bird twice under different names. In the 
account of the latter it is said to inhabit the river Don, which is 
certainly the most probable residence of a bird that visits this 
country only during winter. 
London Museum, 
Nov, 17, 1812 
