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February 24. — ^Bristol, Wisconsin. — At 7 a. m. the crowing of prairie 

 , roosters is heard in all directions. 



February 24. — Towa Falls, Iowa. — Several flocks of geese passed over to 

 day and three ducks. 



February 25. — Iowa Falls, Iowa. — Geese passing; large flocks of small 

 birds passing north. 



February 26 — Galesburg, Illinois. — Wild geese pass to the north. 



February 27. — New Castle, Indiana. — Forenoon splendid ; doves cooing, 

 birds singing, everything betokens the opening of spring. A dry mist, or 

 smoky haze, so dense as to enable one to look at the sun with but little 

 difficulty. 



February 27. — Iowa Falls, Iowa. — Large flocks of birds of different kinds 

 appeared; they have not come this soon for the last twelve years. 



February 28. — Byberry, Pennsylvania. — Blackbirds (quiscalus versico- 

 lor) first seen this spring. Buds on populus tremuloides and the acers much 

 swollen. 



February 28. — Portsmouth, Ohio. — Observed wild geeee flying southward 

 this afternoon. 



February 28. — Mount Pleasant, Towa. — Saw the first striped squirrel and 

 heard the first notes of bluebirds to-day. 



February 29. — Haddonfield, New Jersey. — A protected silver maple (a 

 variety of acer dasycarpum) on the south side of dwelling-house in bloom. 

 This variety always precedes the others. 



February 29. — Beaufort, South Carolina. — Not a drop of rain since the 

 15th of January, and very few clouds, or rather the haziness of the atmos- 

 phere prevents man}' being seen. The atmosphere has presented for the last 

 six weeks the appearance of our northern Indian summer. Peach in blos- 

 som, and the willow commenced leafing out three weeks since. Butterflies- 

 lend life to the picture. 



February 29 — Urbana, Ohio. — Bluebird and meadow lark seen. 



February 29. — Iowa Falls, Iowa. — Three large flocks of geese passed 

 north to-day. 



February 29. — Onawa, Iowa. — Flocks of wild geese going northward. 

 have made their appearance during the last week of the month. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



February 16. — The French barque Guipuzcoano, of Bordeaux, from New 

 York, bound to Bordeaux, on the 16th February, in latitude 38", longitude- 

 65°, encountered a hurricane from E.SE. which threw her on the beam ends, 

 and kept her in that position for five hours, though every means was re- 

 sorted to to right her by cutting away the mizzenmast and the fore and 

 main topmasts. — Newspaper. 



February 20. — Urbana, Ohio. — Snow off the ground, having covered it 

 five days. 



Fdyruary 21-25. — Chestertown, Maryland. — Farmers generally ploughing;, 

 ground well settled. 



February 26. — The schooner Faith, of Bermuda, on the 26th February, in 

 latitude 32° 10', longitude 67°, encountered a very severe gale, from SVV". to 

 NW., which lasted forty-eight hours, during which carried away the fore- 

 mast, and had to cut away the mainmast, but succeeded in saving part of 

 the sails. — Nexospaper. 



Lunenburg, Vermont. — This month has been quite winterlike ; yet the 

 snow is^^not deep, perhaps one foot on an average in the fields, and a foot 

 and a half or two feet in the woods. 



Pom/ret, Conneciicul. — We had three cold days in February. The greater 



