APPENDIX D 



XCV 



PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, CANADA, 1003. 

 Observation Stations. 



Day of the year 1903 corresponding to 

 the last day of each month. 



S 

 s 

 ^z; 



63 



64 



65 



66 



67 



68 



69 



70 



71 



72 



73a 



73b 



74a 



74b 



75a 



75b 



76a 



76b 



77a 



77b 



78a 



78b 



79a 



79b 



81a 



81b 



82a 



82b 



83 



84 



85 



Jan 31 



Feb 59 



March 90 



April 120 



May 151 



June 181 



For Leap Tear add one to each except 



January. 



July. 

 Aug. 

 Sept . 

 Oct.. 

 Nov., 

 Dec. 



.212 

 242 

 .273 

 .304 

 .334 

 366 



Trifolium piateuse. 



Phleum pratense 



Solan nm tuberosum 



Ploughing (first of season).. . . 

 Sowing " " 



Potato-planting " 



Sheep-Bhearing '' 



Hay-cutting " 



Grain-cutting " 



Potato-digging " , . . 



Opening of rivers " 

 Opening of lakes " 



T^ast snow to whiten ground. 



'' to fly in air 



Last spring frost — hard 



« " hoar 



Water in streams — high 



•' " low 



First antomn frost — hoar. . . . 



'« «' hard.... 

 First snow to fly in air 



" whiten ground... 

 Closing of Lakes 



" Rivera 



Wild ducks migrating, N.. . . 



•' '• S.... 



" geese " N... . 



'« S.... 



Melospiza fasciata, North... 



Turdus migratorius " ... 



Junco hiemalis " 



160 

 174 

 182 

 113 

 123 

 123 

 129 

 200 

 246 

 266 



71 



89 

 116 

 131' 

 140 

 158 



89 

 193 

 25' 

 284 

 290 

 306 

 33» 

 344 

 85 

 302 



78 



318 



84 



7y 



81 



* When becoming common. 



t The phenochroni for Nova Scotia are the averages of over 300 selected schedules, the fractions 

 beingomitted. In some of the sch- dules from the Western Provinces of Canada, the cognate wtstem 

 species are taken as indicated exactly in previous reports. 



