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South East, distinctly heard at 8 and at 9 o'clock at Clapton : 

 Wind S. E. Starlings seen in numbers. 



22d. Parus caudatus seen at Walthamstow. I passed 

 the remainder of October and the chief part of November 

 at Walthamstow, but was too ill to make any accurate 

 observations, having participated largely in an atrabilious 

 Epidemic that prevailed all the autumn. I learnt afterwards 

 that the season had been marked by very peculiar circum- 

 stances of the Atmosphere and its Phaenomena. The Plane 

 Trees in most parts of the Kingdom had died, and the 

 distribution of clouds in the Sky was very peculiar during 

 August and September ; and hypochondriacal complaints 

 began to prevail early in October, at the beginning of the 

 rainy weather. It was at this period that the Electric Bells 

 of M. Benjamin M. Forster's Electroscope beat with so 

 remarkable a pulsation, to which I have alluded in my 

 journals. 



* 1811. JAN. llth. Sea Gulls seen in the marshes. Owls 

 heard in the garden. 



FEB. 13th. Frogs seen already. 



24th. Thrushes and Blackbirds begin to sing. Owls; 

 hoot and schreech. 



MARCH 4th. The Croucs in flower at Clapton. 



17th. Frogs croak in the pools. Bat seen. 



18th. Clear weather with Easterly Winds, very multiform 

 Cirri, Falling Stars, &c. marking a peculiarly unwholesome 

 state of the air. 



21st. There are some germinal appearances on the earlier 

 budding trees and shrubs. The Owls hoot very much this 

 .spring. 



27th. An early spring and the flowers of the Primaveral 

 Flora forward. DalFodils and other early plants in flower. 



