THE CALENDAR OF FLORA. 315 



Odober 



2. *CROW, ROYSTON, 39. 4. Corvus 

 comix ^ returns. 



5. Catkins of fallows formed, 



6. Leaves of afp almofl all off— of chefniit^ 



yellow— -of birch ^ gold-coloured. 

 Thermom. 26.50. Higbeft this month. 



7. BLACK BIRD, 65.1. Tardus meriila, 



fings. 

 Wind high \ rooks f port and daflo about as 

 in play J and repair their nefls. 

 9. Spindle tree, 468.1. Euvonymus Eu- 

 rop^us^ F. R. 

 Some afh trees quite ftripped of their leaves. 

 Leaves of marfh elder of a beautiful red., or 

 rather pink colour. 

 10. WOOD l.i\RKftngs. 

 t RING DOVE cooes. 

 J4. WOOD LARK^^i. 



Several plants flilL in flower., as panfy., 

 white behn., black nonefuch., hawkweedy 

 buglofs., gentian., fmalljtitchwort^ i^c. in 

 grounds not broken up. 

 A great mijl and p erf eh calm\ not fo much 

 as a leaf falls. Spiders webs innu- 

 merable appear every where. Woodlark 

 fings. Rooks do not ftir but fit quietly 

 en their nefi trees. 

 16, GEESE, WILD, 1364. Anas, a-.ifer^ 

 leave the fens and go to the rye lands. 



* Linnaeus obferves in tlie Syftema Natiiroe, and the Fauna Suecica, 

 that this biid is uleful to the hulbandman, tho' ill treated by hini. 



t Arlftotle fays, this bird does not ccoe in the winter, unlels the 

 weather happens to be mild. 



