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XXIX. Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Li \ \ ba n 



Society of London . 



Nov. % % Dr. Maton, Vice-President, communicated a Letter 

 1819- from the Rev. Revett Sheppard, l-'.L.S., giving an ac- 

 count of the Coluber Chenea of Linnaeus, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc.., vol. xii. p. 349, and the C. Prafer, having bet D 

 found in the parish of LevingtOD and other places ID 

 the county of Suffolk, in arid waste situations, where, 

 from the circumstance of the Stria beachyotot in - 

 quenting the same places during six months of tin- 

 year, it is probable that those vipers feed on mice. 



Mar. 7, The Rev. William Whitear, Y.h.S. communicate d 



1820. the following Remarks by Mr. J. Youell of Yarmouth 

 in Norfolk : — In the spring of 1818, Mr. Youell pin- 

 cured from the marshes at Winterton upwards of thirty 

 eggs of the Shoveler Duck {Anas chjpeata Linn.). 

 These eggs were put under some domestic fowls, and 

 most of them were hatched ; but he succeeded in rear- 

 ing only two of them. Their bills, when a few days 

 old, were not longer than those of the domestic Duck, 

 but at the age of three weeks they had obviously in- 

 creased in length more than those of the common 

 ' Duckling. One of these birds, a male, lived till it 

 was ten months old, and then had attained in a con- 

 siderable degree the adult plumage of the Shoveler. 

 4 k 2 Mr. 



