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



middle of it as far upon the head as on a level with the 

 eyes. Belly orange-tawny, which colour reaches to 

 the breast, where it becomes narrow, and then forms 

 a line across it reaching to the insertion of the fore 

 feet. Tail covered thinly with long white hair, and 

 the extreme half of it entirely white." 



Dec. 21. Read a Letter from Mr. John Youell, of Yarmouth, 

 A.L.S.. addressed to the Secretary, in which he states, 

 that on the 24th of May last, Ardea Cayennensis, Linn, 

 was taken near the walls of that town. It has six crest- 

 feathers of unequal length, and agrees with Linneeus's 

 description of that species in all respects. 



Mr. Youell also states, that a pair of the Green Ibis, 

 Tantalus viridis Gmel., were taken near Yarmouth in 

 October last. 



Having remarked that Bewick, in describing the 

 Coot, Fulica atra Linn., says that " it is a bad tra- 

 veller, and may be said not to walk, but to splash and 

 waddle between one pool and another with a laboured, 

 ill-balanced, and awkward gait," — Mr. Youell observes, 

 that " this excellent author could have had but few 

 opportunities of noticing the habits of this bird ; for 

 instead of being awkward on land, it is fully as lively 

 on land as in the water, standing iirmly and steadily, 

 and without any tottering or waddling in its gait. It 

 ^icks up grain with surprising alacrity ; even much 

 quicker than any of our domestic poultry. If deprived 

 of water in which to pass the night, it will roost, as 

 other land-birds, upon any elevated situation, and it 

 will ascend a tree with the activity of the wren." 



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