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ners. At the close of the mouth the ground is mostly bare, yet hard-frozen 

 except a little on the surface. 



Canonsbtcrg, Pennsylvania. — Blue-birds arrived on the ISth and robins on 

 the 23d. 



Dyberry, Pennsylvania. — February 28. — During the past winter there has 

 been much less general good sleighing here than common, only February 14 to 

 18, though on some ridge roads descending northward it has been good all win- 

 ter. Fields are now getting bare, wliile ten or twelve inches of snow remains in 

 the woods. The heaviest fall of snow Avas ten and a half inches on the 8th and 

 9th of February. Lumbermen are beginning to raft sawed timber. 



Tioga, Pennsylvania. — February 28. — The last four days have been warm and 

 spring-like; quite umisual for this country. There has not been one day of 

 good sleighing on the river roads this winter. There have been several light 

 snows, but one would be nearly or quite gone before another came. 



Connellsville, Pennsylvania. — Robins seeji on the 16th and blue-birds on the 

 20th. Diffuse lightning in the northeast at 5 a. m. on the 25th ; thunder in the 

 southeast at 7 a. m. 



Nazareth, Pennsylvania. — A crow black-bird (quiscalus versicolor) seen on 

 the 25th; blue-birds plenty every day since the 21st. 



Fallsington, Pennsylvania. — February 12. — llain-storm ; Delaware river 

 broke, and the ice went off gently. 



Frederick City, Maryland. — February 6th. — Blue-birds singing quite merrily 

 this morning. 



Catonsville, Maryland. — February 12. — The cry of wild geese flying north 

 was heard yesterday and to-day. 



WytheviUe, Virginia. — February 2]. — Robins first appear in numbers. 

 28th, frogs first heard. The ground in garden to-day would admit of being 

 worked ; in some shaded fields, near woods, the ground still remains frozen. 



Ashland, West Virginia. — February 24. — Thunder and lightning, with hard 

 wind from the west, this morning. 



Atlanta. Georgia. — February 24. — Thunder at 7 p. m. in the southwest. 

 27th, blackberry bushes begin to leaf out. 



Natchez, Mississippi. — February 17. — Lightning and thunder in the south- 

 west at 7 p. m. 



Grenada, Mississippi. — February 15. — Thermometer 11° at 7 a. m. It is 

 the coldest here since January 6, 1864, when the thermometer was at zero. 



Chileshurg, Kentucky. — February 24. — A heavy tiiunder-storm passed over 

 from the south between two and three o'clock this morning. 



Austinsburg, Ohio. — Blue-birds appeared on the 27th. Robins singing on 

 the 28th. 



TJrbana, Ohio. — Blue-birds seen on the 20th; robins on the 21st. Ground 

 clear of snow on the 22d, having been covered since the 22d of January with 

 the exception of one day, making thirty days. 23d, thunder occasionally from 

 7^ p. m. to 10^ p. m. 



• Kingston, Ohio. — February 24. — The frost is all out of the ground, except a 

 stratum about an inch thick at the depth of six inches. 



Cleveland, Ohio — February \ 6. — Heavy reports and shaking of ground last 

 night, caused by cracks made in the surface of the ground from the effects of the 

 extreme cold. 



Netv Lisbon, Ohio. — February 9. — Blue-birds and robins come. 



Marion, Ohio. — February 23 — Thunder-storm in the night. 



Milnersville, Ohio. — February 21, — Heard the American robin to-day for the 

 first time. The blue-bird and the great Carolina wren, the cardinal grosbeak, the 

 black-capped and the tufted titmouse, have been here mvarly all winter. The 

 common crow and the American starling or meadow lark have been here for 

 about tAvo weeks. 



