in Englajid for 1B30. '.:> ITSl 



■ October was a fine dry month ; a few sharp frosts about the middle 

 aifected tender plants ; towards the latter end of the month we had ren 

 freshing warm rains. — Birds. The final departure of the ^irundines took 

 place on the 11th, when I saw between 20 and 30 taking their flight in a 

 S.E. direction, but so amazingly high that I could not distinguish their 

 species. A flock of fieldfares (7^urdus pilaris,) arrived here on the 26th. — 

 Scale of prevailing winds. N. 2 days ; N.E. 6 ; E. 5 ; S.E. 4; S. 2; 

 S.W. 3. W. 6; N.W. 2; total 31 days. — Refreshing showers fell on 11 

 days. — The atmospheric and meteoric phenomena noticed this month 

 were, one solar and two lunar haloes, two auroras boreales, and one gale of 

 wind from the N.W. 



November was a very wet and boisterous month. On the sixth there- 

 was a strong gale of wind from the S.W., with continued heavy rain ; sharps 

 frosts on the mornings of the 24th and 25th. — Scale of prevailing winds.- 

 N. 1 day; N E. 1; E. 5 ; S.E. ; S. 8; S.W. 10; W. 3; N.W. 2 : total 

 30 days. — Rain fell on 21 days. — The atmospheric and meteoric pheno- 

 mena noticed this mbnth were, two solar and three lunar haloes, two 

 auroras boreales, viz. on the 1st and 4th ; six meteors, two rainbows, and 

 six gales of wind, viz. three from the S.W., two from the E., and one from, 

 the S. . 



December was a dry and seasonable month, slight showers having fallen, 

 only on six days. The wind was exceedingly vai'iable and boisterous about 

 the middle of the month. On the 17th the wind veered completely round 

 the compass in sixteen hours, blowing hard all the time; it finally became 

 stationary due N., with very sharp clear frost. The 21st and 22d were, 

 remarkably warm clear days, so much so that the robin and the throstle) 

 were vying with each other for preeminence of song. On the night of the 

 22d the wind shifted from S.W. to N.W., with very hard frost, so that oa, 

 Christmas day several persons ventured to skait on the Ouse. Snow fell 

 on the 28th, from 3 A.M. till 2 P.M. On the 30th a thaw commenced,; 

 with continued warm rain. The year closed with a calm cloudy night, the 

 frost and snow being entirely gone. It is calculated that from thirty to 

 forty thousand sheep have died of the rot in this county, owing to the very , 

 wet summer ; some farmers have lost their-flocks entirely. — Scale of pre- 

 vailing winds. N. 1 ; N.E. 5 ; E. 4 ; S.E. 2 ; S. 3; S.W. 17 ; W. 2 ; , 

 N.W. 7 ; total 31 days. — The atmospheric and meteoric phenomena noticed 

 this month were, two solar and seven lunar haloes, six paraselenes, sixteen 

 meteors, five auroras boreales, and three gales of wind, viz. one from the N.,; 

 and two from the N.W. Of the sixteen meteors mentioned, I observed; 

 one on the 10th, at 8 P.M. It was of a brilliant blue colour, which faded 

 into a yellowish green as it approached the earth ; its train was about 5° in, 

 length, and emitted very bright sparks ; its altitude was 40°. I saw an- 

 other on the 17th, at 6 P.M. just below the belt of Orion, which took a 

 S.W. direction. It was of a bright red colour, but, a building intervening,^ 

 I could not observe it vanish. 



Calendar of Nature for Bungay, in Suffolk, for 1830. By Daniel Stockj^. 

 Esq. F.L.S. . i 



January. The weather this month was very variable, frost and thaw, 

 succeeding each other rapidly : one day the roads rendered impassable by 

 the quantity of snow, and then by the quantity of water. On the night 

 of the 30th the frost commenced with great severity. No record of any' 

 plants in flower, in consequence of the quantity of snow. . '' 



