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beneath almost white. Fore-feet with four toes and the rudiment 
of a fifth. Hind-feet with five toes. Tail nearly 5 inches in length, 
pretty thickly covered with short rigid hairs. Head acutely conical ; 
ears large, rounded, thin, sparsely hairy, 1 inch in length and 3ths 
in breadth. Length of the body 43 inches. Old male: bristles of 
the nose 24 inches. 
I captured but a single specimen of this species in a field near 
Monterey, Upper California, which, with those of the former, I had 
the misfortune to lose.—Jdzd. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR FEB. 1849. 
Chiswick.—February 1. Frosty: foggy: rain. 2. Drizzly: hazy: rain. 3. Hazy 
and damp : densely overcast. 4. Overcast. 5. Very fine: overcast. 6. Hazy: 
densely overcast. 7. Overcast. 8. Very fine: clear. 9. Fine: overcast. 10, 
Overcast : clear at night. 11. Clear: very fine: barometer unusually high : clear 
and frosty at night. 12. Frosty and foggy: fine: clear and frosty. 13. Dense 
fog : fine at noon: foggy. 14. Foggy: fine. 15. Very fine. 16. Foggy: clear 
at night. 17. Frosty: exceedingly fine. 18. Overcast. 19. Overcast: fine, 
20. Slightly overcast: cloudy: rain. 21. Cloudy and fine: rain. 22,23. Fine. 
24, Drizzly: rain: lightning in the evening: densely overcast. 25. Hazy: 
boisterous, with rain and thunder: constant heavy rain at night. 26. Cloudy 
and fine: frosty. 27. Frusty: cloudy and fine: clear. 28. Boisterous, with 
heavy rain.—On the 11th the barometer was higher than it has ever been observed 
in this locality. 
Mean temperature of the month .,,....... Noeaesdbbiee colveestc AI COm 
Mean temperature of Feb. 1848 .......... sabieeead hes csevecese 43 O06 
Mean temperature of Feb. for the last twenty years ...... 40 ‘36 
Average amount of rain in Feb. ........seeeseeseeserseeseevee 1°61 inch, 
Boston.—Feb.1. Fine. 2,3. Foggy. 4,5. Fine. 6,7. Cloudy. 8. Fine: 
rain p.M. 9—12. Fine. 13. Foggy. 14—17. Fine. 18, Cloudy. 19. Cloudy: 
raine.M. 20. Fine: rainr.m. 21. Cloudy. 22, 23. Fine. 24, 25. Cloudy. 
26, 27. Fine. 28. Rain: snow a.m. and Pim. 
Applegarth Manse, Dumfries-shire— Feb. 1. Frost and snow: looking moist p.m. 
2. Fog and drizzling all day. 3. Fog and drizzling. 4, Dull a.m.: drizzling 
rain p.M. 5, Still dull, but fair: cloudy and moist p.m. 6. Mild: cloudy: high 
wind p.m. 7. Rain during night: fair and clear. 8. Fair, but dull a.m. : rain p.m. 
9. Fair early a.m.: rain at noon: rain e.m. 10. Fine morning: one shower: 
clearr.m. 11. Frost: fog: cleared p.m. - 12.. Fair: slight shower: cleared. 
13. Frost a.m.: clear: rainr.m. 14, Fine spring day: dry throughout. 15. 
Fine: drying wind. 16. Frost: clear and fine: high wind p.m. 17. Fair and 
clear: storm of wind. 18,19. Rain and wind. 20. Dull and moist. 21. Frost: 
rain and wind p.m. 22. Dull a.m.: came on storm, windand rain. 23. Fair: 
slight frost: snow on hills. 24. Frost and snow: clear: freezing. 25. Hard 
frost : fine. 26, Very hard frost: hail-shower. 27. Hard frost. 28, Rain heavy : 
wind high. 
Mean temperature of the month ......... avcuateseaaes gattines uae 
Mean temperature of Feb. 1848  .........cc.cesceeesceeseees 40 ‘1 
Mean temperature of Feb. for the last twenty-five years. 37 °3 
RE AE OE. TSG. fos coc. sss ccocenenesese aeacckasuecsenskuns .» 5°53 inches, 
Average amount of rain in Feb. for the last twenty years 2°04 ,, 
Sanduick Manse, Orkney.— Feb. 1. Clear: frost: cloudy. 2. Cloudy. 3. Bright: 
drizzle. 4. Bright: clear: hoar-frost. 5. Drizzle: rain. 6. Clear: cloudy, 
7. Drizzle: cloudy. 8. Bright: hail, thunder and lightning. 9. Cloudy: 
damp. 10. Thunder and lightning: sleet-showers. 11. Bright: cloudy. 12, 
Fine: clear: aurora. 13. Showers. 14. Rain. 15. Rain: drizzle. 16, Hazy: 
showers. 17. Cloudy: showers. 18. Showers. 19. Showers: aurora. 20. Snow- 
showers. 21. Frost: snow-showers. 22, 23. Snow: frost: auroras 24. Snow- 
showers, 25. Snow.showers: clear: frost. 26. Snow-showers: clear: aurora. 
27. Snow: fine: clear: aurora. 28. Rain: sleet-showers. Be 
