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tries, and the great body of migratory individuals arrived from 

 the north ; I am disposed to believe, as in the case of their 

 ally the common snipe (Scolopax gallinago), that the small 

 proportion of woodcocks which breed in this country are per- 

 manent residents. 



I have not touched upon the subject of any change in the 

 great breeding haunts of the woodcock in high northern lati- 

 tudes, from my inability to learn anything satisfactory about 

 the matter. It has been stated indeed that the eggs have 

 been much used in Sweden of late years, but it seems impro- 

 bable that any change in regions so far remote as the ordinary 

 summer haunts of the woodcock can affect the question of its 

 breeding within the British islands. 



XL. — On the Botany of the Channel Islands, By Charles 

 C. Babington, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., &c* 



Having last year had the pleasure of submitting to this Section an 

 account of my botanical observations in the islands of Guernsey and 

 Jersey f, I should not have ventured to occupy the time of this 

 Meeting with anything further on the subject had I not been so 

 fortunate as to make several additions to the Channel Islands Flora 

 during the last few weeks. 



I will proceed to mention the names of those plants which had 

 not been noticed in the islands before the present year. 



Ranunculus ophioglossifolius. In a very wet marsh in Jersey. 



Orchis laxiflora. Common in wet places in Jersey and Guernsey. 



Linaria pelisseriana. In one place upon a dry hill side, amongst 

 Ulex europaus, in Jersey. 



Myriophyllum alterniflorum. In marsh ditches in Guernsey. 



Polygala oxyptera. This is probably a variety of P. vulgaris, but 

 has been distinguished by several eminent continental botanists. It 

 is frequent in all the islands, and has been gathered by myself near 

 Liverpool. 



Ononis reclinata. This plant is very common in Alderney, but has 

 not been noticed in the other islands. It was found several years 

 since on the coast of Galloway in Scotland, by Dr. Graham. 



Potamogeton plantagineus. In damp pits from which peat has been 



* Read before the Nat. Hist. Sec. of the British Association, at Newcastle, 

 Aug. 20, 1838, and communicated by the Author, 

 f Published in Mag. of Zool. and Bot., ii. 397. 



