Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Einnean Society. 583 
June 17. 
Nov. 4. 
Major-general Hardwicke communicated an Account 
of the Buceros undulatus of Shaw, 364 inches in length, 
including the bill of 7 inches and tail of 12 inches.— 
This bird when taken seemed to have attained its 
full growth ; at least it did not increase in size during 
the two years it was confined in a cage. Its habits 
were playful and docile. It was fed on plantains and 
boiled rice. It died when moulting, and fell suddenly 
from its perch. Its weight, in good condition, was 
5 pounds 2 ounces. It is a native of the woods about 
Chittagong and Sylhet." 
Dr. Sims, F.L.S. communicated to the Society an Ex- 
tract of a Letter from W. Fothergill, Esq. of Carr-end, 
near Arkrigg, in Yorkshire, containing a notice of the 
Falco furcatus Linn. having been taken alive in Shaw- 
gill, near Hawes in Wensleydale, in that county, on the 
6th of September 1805. Mr. Fothergill states, that, 
* apparently to avoid the violence of a tremendous 
thunder-storm, and the clamorous persecution of a 
flock of rooks which attacked it at the same instant, 
it took shelter in a thicket, where it was seized before 
it could extricate itself. The person who caught it 
kept it a month; but a door being accidentally left 
open, it made its escape. It first alighted on a tree at 
no great distance, from which it soon ascended in a 
spiral flight to a great elevation, and then went stea- 
dily off in a southerly direction as far as the eye could 
trace it." 
Mr. Fothergill also states, that the Rallus pusillus of 
Gmel. (Gallinula minuta of Montagu and G. pusilla 
of Temminck) ** was shot on the 6th of May 1807, by 
John 
