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JANUARY. 



land, and other arctic lands, we cannot avoid 

 feeling how much poetry is connected with 

 these wanderers of the earth and air. 



I have endeavoured to mark, in a tabular 

 form, the arrivals and departures of this class of 

 birds, in their respective months, in a more 

 clear and complete manner than has hitherto 

 been done. 



No migratory birds arrive this month, if we 

 except grosbeaks and silktails, which in this, as 

 in the last, occasionally appear, in very severe 

 weather, as well as flocks of Norway spinks. 

 According to Gilbert White, large flocks of hen 

 chaffinches likewise appear in winter, which 

 are supposed to come from the Continent. This 

 singular circumstance seems difficult of solu- 

 tion. 



DEPARTURES. 



