Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean Society. 583 



June 17. Major-generalHardwickecommunicated an Account 

 of the Buceros undulatus of Shaw, 36^ inches in length, 

 inchiding the bill of 7 inches and tail of 12 inches.- — 

 " This bird when taken seemed to have attained its 

 full growth ; at least it did not increase in size during 

 the two years it was confined in a cage. Its habits 

 were playful and docile. It was fed on plantains and 

 boiled rice. It died when moulting, and fell suddenly 

 from its perch. Its weight, in good condition, was 

 5 pounds 2 ounces. It is a native of the woods about 

 Chittagong and Sylhet." 



2Vot>. 4. Dr. Sims, F.L.S. communicated to the SocietyanEx- 

 tract of a Letter from W. Fothergill, Esq. of Carr-end, 

 near Arkrigg, in Yorkshire, containing a notice of the 

 Falco furcatus Linn, having been taken alive in Shaw- 

 gill, near Hawes in Wensleydale, in that county, on the 

 6th of September 1805. Mr. Fothergill states, that, 

 " apparently to avoid the violence of a tremendous 

 thunder-storm, and the clamorous persecution of a 

 flock of rooks which attacked it at the same instant, 

 it took shelter in a thicket, where it was seized before 

 it could extricate itself. The person who caught it 

 kept it a month ; but a door being accidentally left 



. £ J t: open, it made its escape. It first alighted on a tree at 

 no great distance, from which it soon ascended in a 

 spiral flight to a great elevation, and then went stea- 

 dily off" in a southerly direction as far as the eye could 

 trace it." 



Mr. Fothergill also states, that the Ballus pusillus of 

 Gmel. (Gallinula minuta of Montagu and G. pusilla 

 of Temniinck) '* was shot on the 6th of May 1807, by 



John 



