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September 9, 1845. 

 No business was transacted. 



September 23, 1845. 

 "VVilliam Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Edward Fitton, Esq., exhibited to the Meeting a fine malė speci- 

 men of the White-winged Crossbill {Loxia leucoptera), in red plu- 

 mage, which he had picked up dead upon the shore at Exmouth on 

 the 17th instant. It appeared to have been injured on the back of 

 the head, and to have crept into a crevice of one of the loose frag- 

 ments of rock on the shore, where it was found by Mr. Fitton, partly 

 covered with wet sand. 



The wind at the time Avas south-west, and had been blowing hard 

 from north-west to west and south-\vest for some days. 



Mr. Yarrell exhibited a full-grown Herring, ha^ang a lobe of fe- 

 male, or hard roe, on one side, and a lobe of malė, or soft roe, on the 

 other. This degree of malformation has not hitherto been recorded 

 as found in the herring, but has been observed in the perch, mack- 

 erel, carp, cod, whiting and sole. 



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