( 613 ) XXIX. Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean Society of London. iSlov. 2, Dr. Maton, Vice-President, communicated a Letter 1819. from the Rev. Revett Sheppard, F.L.S., giving an ac-count of the Coluber Chersea of Linnaeus, Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xii. p. 349, and the C. Prester, having been found in the parish of Levington and other places in the county of Suffolk, in arid waste situations, where, from the circumstance of the Strix brachyotos fre-quenting the same places during six months of the year, it is probable that those vipers feed on mice. Mar. 7, The Rev. William Whitear, F.L.S. communicated 1820. the following Remarks by Mr. J. Youell of Yarmouth in Norfolk : — In the spring of 1818, Mr. Youell pro-cured from the marshes at Winterton upwards of thirty eggs of the Shoveler Duck {Anas clypeata Linn.). These eggs were put under some domestic fowls, and most of them were hatched ; but he succeeded in rear-ing only two of them. Their bills, when a few days old, were not longer than those of the domestic Duck, but at the age of three weeks they had obviously in-creased in length more than those of the common Duckling. One of these birds, a male, lived till it was ten months old, and then had attained in a con-siderable degree the adult plumage of the Shoveler. 4 K 2 Mr.
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