fUport on the fUtxtrns of flatirfall 



AND 



011 the Jflotomng of plants nub 

 of f irb* 



IN DORSET DURING 1891. 



By M. G. STUART, Esq. 



HE report for 1891 suffers from the loss of returns from 

 some of our most careful observers, and to influenza 

 must be attributed the fragmentary nature of the 

 observations in some instances. The year 1891 will 

 always be memorable in the South of England for 

 the great frost with which it opened, and which had 

 already lasted some five weeks, for the snowstorm 

 of March, the drought of the earlier months, and 

 the excessive rainfall of the autumn. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE APPEARANCE OF BIRDS IN DORSET 

 DURING 1891. 



* Seen at Swanage, March 8th ; at West Lulworth, March 30th. 

 t Seen at Tyneham, April 17th. J Song. 



