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11. Cold and frosty. Butcher Bird. 



13. Schuylkill scaled over with !<•<•. Yet Picus 



auratus, 'S "« 1 1 * >w Rump, Blue Bird, Butcher Bird 



and Mock Bird are with us. 

 15. Clear and cold. Mock bird, Yellow Rump, 



Robbing, and Blue Birds 

 is. Slight fall of snow. Picus auratus, Butcher Bird 

 _'(). Rained all night Mock-Bird 

 22. Ampelis feeding on Fruit of Celtis, Jumperus and 



Diosperus 

 24. Evening serene and calm A very small Owl was 



caught having no horns, (capita lam) not. much 



i ceeding the size of a sparrow much like one 



Figured by Edwards a native of Hudson's Bay. 

 25 Morning clear. Schylkill scaled-over with Ice 



surface of the earth white with hoar frost, serene 



& warm all day evening calm & moderate wind 



southerly. 

 26. Cloudy and moderate. Bluebird 



30. Drizzling day. Some Snow about noon but jooh 

 turned to Rain 



31. Cleared last night. Morning cook Blue Bird 

 Butcher Bird, Fringilla tristis, Regulus cristatus. 

 Xo Ice in Schuylkill. Wasps flying. Moles 

 throw hi; the Earth. Frogs in springy places. 

 Dracontium foetidum above ground. 



Systematic Lisi Oi Bibd Notes. 



Larus argentatus. Herbing Gull. 



Guile :irc still frequent, on the river in winter as far as Bahrain's Garden 

 and must, have been plentiful in his time. He apparently only thought of 

 mentioning them when compiling a particularly full winter list, or at an 

 unusually late .late. These are- the only records: 



1821. February 19. Sea nulls from south passing to the north. 

 April 11. Gull-. 



1822. February '12. Sea gulls. 



Sterna hirundo. Common Ti ■ 



1822. April 11. Rain showers all night, cleared this morning, blustery 



Terns. 



