584 Extracts from the Minute- Book of the Linnean Society. 
l'eb. 3, 
1824. 
April 20. 
John Humphrey, Esq. of Wensley, on the banks of the 
Yore, near that place. It was alone, and suffered itself 
to be approached very near without betraying any 
sense of danger. It ran with great rapidity, carrying 
its tail erect." 
Colonel Montagu has given an account of a bird of 
this species having been killed in England in 1809, 
and it had not before been noticed as a British bird. 
Read a Letter from John Hogg, Esq. M.A. F.L.S., 
of Norton, near Stockton-on-Tees, containing an ac- 
count of the Golden Eagle (Falco chrysaetos Linn.) 
having been shot near the mouth of the Tees on the 
5th of November last. 
Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bart. F.L.S. exhibited 
specimens of the Sirex juvencus Linn., and a piece of 
Scotch Fir ( Pinus sylvestris) which had been perforated 
by it. These were communicated to Sir Thomas by 
the Countess of Stradbroke, who informed him that 
nearly 200 trees of the Scotch Fir have been de- 
stroyed by this insect in the Earl of Stradbroke's 
woods, at Henham-Hall, in Suffolk. It is stated, that 
the man who has the superintendence of the woods 
has for some time observed the trees in a part of the 
_ park to be more or less sickly; but until within the 
June 15. 
last three or four years he had attributed the decay of 
the trees to the poverty of the soil. 
The Secretary exhibited a hermaphrodite Insect, of 
which the left side is that of Papilio Laodocus Fab., 
and the right side that of Papilio Polycaon Fab., thus 
proving 
