Extracts from the Minule-Book of the Linnean Society. 587 



shot a Greater Pettychaps, the legs of which were tinged 

 with flesh-colour ; and if Linnaeus described from such 

 a specimen when stuffed and dried, he would unques- 

 tionably describe the legs as dark brown or fuscous. 

 Mr. Sheppard upon the whole is satisfied that " the 

 Greater Pettychaps is the Motacilla Hippolais of Lin- 

 naeus, or Sylvia Hippolais of modern authors ;" and 

 he proposes that the Lesser Pettychaps or Lesser Willow- 

 Wren should be named " Sylvia achetella, from its every 

 now and then, while the female is sitting, shivering its 

 wings, and finishing its song with a cry very similar to 

 the noise made by some species of crickets." 



The following Observations by the Rev. Revett 

 Sheppard were also read, viz. 



"JSsox lucius. No author that I know of has noticed 

 the migration of Pikes, such as takes place yearly in 

 spring in the Cam, up which river they come in great 

 shoals, > doubtless from the fens in the neighbourhood 

 of Ely, where they are bred. 



" Cyprimis Brama. There exist in the river Trent, 

 in the neighbourhood of Newark, two species or va- 

 rieties of Bream. The common one, Cijpriiius Brama, 

 is known there by the name of Carp Bream, from its 

 yellow colour, and has been taken of nearly 8 lbs. 

 weight. The other species or variety, which I believe 

 to be nondescript, never exceeds a pound in weight. 

 It is of a silvery hue, and goes by the name of White 

 Bream. 



" Talpa europcea. A variety of the Mole is occa- 

 sionally found at Levington, in the county of Suffolk. 

 The snout is white, and a white line extends from the 

 yoL. XIV. 4g middle 



