584 Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean Society: 



John Humphrey, Esq. of Wensley, on the banks of the 

 Yore, near that place. It was alone, and suffered itself 

 to be approached very near without betraying any 

 sense of danger. It ran with great rapidity, carrying 

 its tail erect." 



Colonel Montagu has given an account of a bird of 

 this species having been killed in England in 1809, 

 and it had not before been noticed as a British bird. 



Feb. 3, Read a Letter from John Hogg, Esq. M.A. F.L.S., 

 1824. of Norton, near Stockton-on-Tees, containing an ac- 

 count of the Golden Eagle {Falco chrysaetos Linn.) 

 having been shot near the mouth of the Tees on the 

 5th of November last. 



April 20. Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bart. F.L.S. exhibited 

 specimens of the Sirex juvencus Linn., and a piece of 

 Scotch Fir {Pinus sylvestris) which hadJbeen perforated 

 by it. These were communicated to Sir Thomas by 

 the Countess of Stradbroke, who informed him that 

 nearly 200 trees of the Scotch Fir have been de- 

 stroyed by this insect in the Earl of Stradbroke's 

 woods, at Henham-Hall, in Suffolk. It is stated, that 

 the man who has the superintendence of the woods 

 has for some time observed the trees in a part of the 

 park to be more or less sickly ; but until within the 

 last three or four years he had attributed the decay of 

 the trees to the poverty of the soil. 



June 15. The Secretary exhibited a hermaphrodite Insect, of 

 which the left side is that of Papilio Laodociis Fab., 

 and the right side that of Papilio Polycaon Fab., thus 



proving 



