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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. Bt/ N. A: Vigors, Esq. A.M. F.L.S. Communicated 

 by the Zoological Club of the Linnean Society. 



Read November 2, 1824. 



The Natural History of these islands has been studied with so 

 much science and 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, which, 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. 



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