588 Extracts from the Minute- Book of the Linnean Society. 
middle of it as far upon the head as on a level with the 
eyes. Belly orange-tawny, which colour reaches to 
the breast, where it becomes narrow, and then forms 
a line across it reaching to the insertion of the fore 
feet. Tail covered thinly with long white hair, and 
the extreme half of it entirely white." 
. Read a Letter from Mr. John Youell, of Yarmouth, 
A.L.S.. addressed to the Secretary, in which he states, 
. that on the 24th of May last, Ardea Cayennensis, Linn. 
was taken near the walls of that town. It has six crest- 
feathers of unequal length, and agrees with Linnæus’s 
description of that species in all respects. 
Mr. Youell also states, that a pair of the Green Ibis, 
Tantalus viridis Gmel., were taken near Yarmouth in 
October last. | | 
Having remarked that Bewick, in describing the 
Coot, Fulica atra Linn., says that **it is a bad tra- 
veller, and may be said not to walk, but to splash and 
waddle between one pool and another with a laboured, 
ill-balanced, and awkward gait,"— Mr. Y ouell observes, 
- that ** this excellent author could have had but few 
opportunities of noticing the habits of this bird ; for 
instead of being awkward on land, it is fully as lively 
on land as in the water, standing firmly and steadily, 
and without any tottering or waddling in its gait. It 
picks up grain with surprising alacrity ; even much 
quicker than any of our domestic poultry. If deprived 
of water in which to pass the night, it will roost, as 
other land-birds, upon any elevated situation, and it 
will ascend a tree with the activity of the wren." 
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