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if I add that the bird in question was an adult male, and on examination 
the stomach was found to contain crow-berries.—GuorcE Si (20, King 
Street, Aberdeen). 
Varieties or Common Birps.—The other day Mr. Wilks, gunmaker, 
showed me a variety of the Sparrow that had been shot at Roundhay during 
the second week of October. It was of a uniform pure white, with the 
exception of the wings, which were tipped with light brown. The following 
varieties have also been obtained in this district during the past year :— 
A cream-coloured Corn Bunting; a dark buff-coloured Starling; a Rook 
with its wings barred with white; and a Blackbird with its back and wings 
liberally dashed with white—Watrer Ratne (Leeds). 
Mopet or tHe Grear Avux.—Mr. George Pinfold, taxidermist, of 
217, Hampstead Road, London, has at present on view a life-size model 
of the Great Auk, so skilfully made with feathers of the Razorbill as to 
present a most natural appearance, the bill being carefully modelled and 
coloured from the specimen in the British Museum. We believe the price 
asked for it is £10, and considering the time and labour which must have’ 
been bestowed upon its preparation and the excellence of the workmanship, 
this does not seem high, especially when it is remembered that the value 
of a genuine specimen at the present time is at least £100. We recommend 
it to the notice of curators of museums. As the next best thing to a real 
one, a good model like this in a public museum would enable visitors to 
form a very good idea of the appearance of this remarkable and now extinct 
bird.—Eb. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Linnean Society or Lonpon. 
November 4, 1880.—Prof. ALuMan, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 
The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society ;—Messrs. 
Edward Brown (Neweastle-on-Tyne), H. E. Dresser (Tenterden Street, 
London), and T. Fraser Pippe (Bengal). 
Mr. H. C. Sorby brought to notice drawings of some British Sea 
Anemones found by him attached to the upper fronds of long sea-weeds in 
deep water; and he mentioned that in his late cruise round the coast 
in his yacht a solitary cream-coloured Cetacean had been seen, though 
unfortunately the species could not be determined. 
Prof. T. Spencer Cobbold exhibited, along with sketches, a remarkable 
Trematode from the horse. It was discovered by Dr. Sonsino at Zagazic 
during the Egyptian plague, with which outbreak, however, the parasite had 
