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from that bird in the structures of its bill. It is the Buceros 

 Leadbeateriy " B. niger, remigibus primoribus albis ; regione 

 ophthalmica guttureque nudis cocci neis, cceruleo-variegatis ; ros- 

 tri dorso elevato, cultrato, compresso." 



To the same zealous and scientific ornithologist we are further 

 indebted for the additiba to the British Fauna of a new species of 

 Scolopaxy a single specimen of which was shot in the Queen's 

 County, Ireland, in August, 1822, and which has since occurred 

 ence in England in the neighbourhood of Rochester. In ^' A 

 description of a new species of Scolopax lately discovered in th6 

 British Islands : with observations on the ^nas gloeitans of 

 PallaSy and a description of the female of that species j by N. A* 

 Vigors, Esq. ;" it is thus characterized ; " Scolopax Sabinu S. 

 castaneo atroque varia, subtus pallidior, pileo humeris pteromati- 

 bus remigibusque atris, rostro pedibusque fusco-atris." It differs 

 from every other European species by the total absence of white 

 from its plumage, as well as of those lighter tints of ferruginous- 

 yellow which extend more or less in stripes along the head and 

 back of them all. It also differs from all except S, Gallinula in 

 the number of its tail-feathers, which amount to twelve. The Anas 

 gloeitans^ referred by modern zoologists to the genus Querquedula 

 of Brisson, is also extremely interesting to the British ornithologist 

 from its having been quoted by Pennant as synonymous with his 

 Bimaculated Duck. The male of this species was first described 

 in the^' British Zoology," from a specimen taken in 1771, but 

 from no further account having been given of it, and as it has not 

 been ascertained whether it was afterwards preserved, it has fre- 

 quently been regarded as a doubtful natit^e of our islands. Mr. 

 Vigors has however in his possession specimens both of the male 

 and female, which were taken in a decoy near Maldon, Essex, in 

 the winter of 1812-13. These he has described, the latter for the 

 first time, and has thus set at rest the question of the existence, as 

 well as of the locality, of the species. In this, as in the former 

 case, he has also pointed out the leading marks which distinguish 

 it from the kindred species. 



The " Descriptions of two species of Antelope from India, by 

 Major General T. Hard wi eke," are those of tlic Jniilope Gofal 



