Extracts from the Minute- Book of the Linnean Society. 753 



Emberiza miliaria of Linnaeus, one of them entirely 

 white. 



March 4. Mr. George Townshend Fox, F.L.S., sent for exhi- 

 bition, specimens of the following Birds, viz. 

 .11 ,oi. !• -^nas rutila of l^allsis, the Anas Casarka of Gvae- 

 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 British Fauna. 



2. Loxia canlans of Gmelin, the Brown Grosbeak 

 of Brown's Illustrations, t. 27. 



3. Loxia ferruginea oi GmeMvi, the Brown-headed 

 Grosbeak of Latham. 



4. Loxia aurea of Gmelin, the Gold-backed Gros- 

 beak of Brown's Illustrations, t. 25. 



These, together with the specimen of the Loxia 

 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 



5 D 2 Edward 



