Extracts from the Minute- Book of the Linnean Society. 753 
March 4. 
Emberiza miliaria of Linnwus, one of them entirely 
white. 
Mr. George Townshend Fox, F.L.S., sent for exhi- 
bition, specimens of the following Birds, viz. 
1. Anas rutila of Pallas, the Anas Casarka of Gme- 
lin, or Grey-headed Duck of Brown's Illustrations of 
Zoology, t. 41. It is on the authority of this specimen 
that the bird has been received into the Dritish Fauna. 
2. Loxia cantans of Gmelin, the Brown Grosbeak 
of Brown’s Illustrations, t. 27. 
3. Loxia ferruginea of Gmelin, the Brown-headed 
Grosbeak of Latham. 
4. Loxia aurea of Gmelin, the Gold-backed T 
beak of Brown's Illustrations, t. 25. 
These, together with the specimen of the Loria 
crassirostris, Gm., exhibited at a former meeting, are 
the original authorities for the species. They formed 
part of the late Messrs. Tunstall and Allan's collection, 
which is now incorporated with the Museum belonging 
to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne. 
The Rev. Leonard Jenyns, F.L.S., exhibited speci- 
mens of the British species of Plecotus, supposed to 
have been confounded under the name of Long-eared 
Bat; and also a specimen of Vespertilio mystacinus of 
Leisler, taken at Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, on the 
29th of April 1827, being the second instance of its 
having been found in Great Britain. 
March 18. In consequence of the lamented death of Sir James 
5p2 Edward 
