290 THE CALENDAR OF FLORA. 



Feb. 4. WOOD LARK, 69.2. Alauda arhorea^ 

 fings. 

 Elder tree, 461. Sambucus nigra^ £ 

 12. ROOKS, 39.3. Corvus frugilegus^ begin to 

 pair. 

 GEESE, 1 3 6. 1. AnaSy anfer^ begin to lay, 

 * WAGTAIL WHITE, 75.1. Motacilla 

 alha^ a f fears. 

 16. THRUSH, 64.2. "Turdus muficusyjings, 

 t CHAFFINCH, 88. Fringilla celebs, 

 fings. 

 20. thermometer, 11. Higheji this month. 

 Thermometer y -2. Lowefi this month. 

 22. PARTRIDGES, SJ- Tetrao perdix, begin 

 to piur. 

 Hafel tree, 439. Corylus avellana, F, 

 25. Goofeberry buih, 1484. H. 1 



Kibcs grojfulariay \. /both young 



Currant, red, 456.1. Ribesf plants. 



rubrum, 1. j 



Thcryywmeter from the i(^th to the 2^th, be- 

 tween o and - 1 with [now. 

 Wind during the latter half of the month be* 

 tween E. and N, 



* The wagtail is faid by Willughby to remain with us all the year 

 in the fevereft weather. Itfeems to me to fhift its quarters atleait, if 

 it does not go out of England. However, it is certainly a bird of 

 paflage in fome countries, if we can believe Aldrovandus, the author 

 of the Swedifh Calendar, and the author of the treatife le Migratio- 

 nibns Avium. Linnaeus obferves, S. N. Art. Mctaciila, that molt 

 birds which live upon infe^ls, nnd not grains, migrate. 



i Linnxus fays, that :he female chalhnch goes to Italy alone, thro' 

 Holland ; and that the male in the fpring, changing its note, foretells 

 the fummer : and Gefner, ornithol. p. 388. lavs that tlu female 

 •hafiinch difappears in Switzerland in the winter, but not the male. 



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