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Aprils. — A letter was read, from the Rev. W. Whitear, A.M. 

 F.L.S. of Starston, in Norfolk, stating that a Little Bustard had 

 been shot in December last, at Little Clacton, in Essex. He consi- 

 ders it to be a curious fact that this bird, an inhabitant of a Southern 

 climate should have been met with in this country, in a hard winter. 



AprillO.—Sir T. GeryCullum, Bart. F.R.S. F.L.S. presented 

 some sections of Fir timber, pierced to a great depth by the Sirex 

 Juvencus of Linnaeus ; together with specimens of the insect itself. 

 They were from the woods of Henham Hall, in Suffolk, the seat 

 of the Earl of Stradbroke, where two hundred Scotch Firs have 

 been destroyed by this insect ; being bored through and through. 



A Catalogue of the Norfolk and Suffolk Birds, with remarks ; 

 by the Rev. Revett Siieppard, A.M. F.L.S. aud the Rev. W. 

 Whitear, A.M. F.L.S., was read in part. 



May 4. — A notice from Mr. Wood was read, respecting a spe- 

 cimen of the Golden Oriole, Oriolus Galbula, shot on the 26th 

 of April, while flying in company with some Blackbirds, at Alder- 

 shot, in Hampshire. 



The reading was continued of Mr. Vigors' paper On the Natu- 

 ral Affinities of Birds; and of the Catalogue of Norfolk and 

 Suffolk Birds, by the Rev. Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear. 



June 1. — The reading of Mr. Vigors' paper was concluded; 

 and that of Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear's Catalogue continued. 



June 15. — The meeting of this evening, which was an extremely 

 numerous one, was honoured by the presence of H. R. H. The 

 Prince of Saxe-Cobourg, and several other personages of distinction. 



Alexander MacLeav, Esq. Sec L. S. exhibited a curious 

 specimen, showiug that two Papiliones, referred to distinct Fami- 

 lies by Fabricius, are in reality the Male and Female of the same 

 Species : this specimen presented the forms and colours of both 

 sexes, divided by a longitudinal line on the body; the right wings 

 and side of the body being as in the Male, and the left as in the 

 Female. 



The reading was commenced of a paper On the Structure of 

 the Tunicata; by W. S. MacLeay, Esq. A.M. F.L.S.: and the 

 Society then adjourned, over the long vacation, to the Second of 

 November next. 



