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used to be at a place called Newgate, about one mile from Margate ; 

 but now they visit not only Newgate, but all along the range of fields 

 from Newgate to Updown and to Chapel Bottom. They are very 

 wild ; I have tried from year to year to catch them with a lark-net 

 at night, but never could succeed, except only in taking a few. As 

 they visit the clover-lay all the day, I thought that they roosted at 

 night ; but I now find this not to be the case, for on returning from 

 a shooting tour at dusk in the evening along the cliffs near the Infir- 

 mary, my attention was attracted by a number of small birds sitting on 

 the fissures of the cliff. On examination they proved to be snow bunt- 

 ings in thousands. This, then, accounts for my not finding them in 

 the fields. On questioning the coast-guardsmen, they told me that 

 about half an hour before dusk they arrive in immense numbers, get- 

 ting into the small holes and crevices of the cliff; but as soon as 

 daylight appears they depart in small flights, making a very musical 

 noise. 



Stephen Mummery. 

 144 High Street, Margate. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR JANUARY 1844. 



Cliiswich. — January L Snow and sleet: clear and frosty at night. 2. Clear: 

 sharp frost at night. 3. Severe frost : overcast : thawing rapidly. 4. Hazy : 

 overcast. 5. Overcast : rain. 6. Mild and fine, 7. Exceedingly clear and fine : 

 frosty. 8. Frosty : fine. 9. Thick haze : cold and dry : overcast. 10. Hazy : 

 drizzly. 11. Overcast. 12. Foggy: heavy rain. 13. Slight drizzle : heavy 

 clouds: squally, with rain. 14. Hazy and drizzly : clouds in strata: densely 

 overcast. 1 5. Clear and frosty. 16. Sharp frost : very fine. 17,18. Overcast. 

 19. Fine : densely clouded. 20. Cloudy, cold and dry. 21. Overcast. 22. Hazy: 

 very fine. 23. Foggy : very fine. 24. Slight fog. 25. Frosty : very fine. 26. 

 Very fine. 27. Slight rain. 28. Rain : fine. 29. Clear: overcast: squally. 



30. Fine: showery. 31. Brisk wind, with small hail: stormy showers, snow, 

 sleet, rain: densely overcast. — Mean temperature of the month 2i° above the 

 average. 



Boston. — Jan. 1. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 2, S. Fine. 4, 5. Cloudy: rain 

 early A.M. 6. Fine : rain early a.m. : rain p.m. 7. Cloudy. 8. Fine. 9. Cloudy : 

 snow P.M. 10. Fine : rain P.M. 11. Cloudy. 1 2. Fine : rain p.m. 13. Cloudy: 

 rain P.M. 14 — 16. Fine. 17. Cloudy. 18 — 20. Fine. 21. Cloudy: rain 

 early a.m. 22. Cloudy. 23. Cloudy : rain early a.m. 24, 25. Foggy. 26. Fine. 

 27. Cloudy. 28. Cloudy: rain early a.m. : rain p.m. 29. Fine. SO. Stormy. 



31. Fine: stormy P.M. 



Sandwich Manse, Orkneij. — Jan. 1. Snow-showers. 2. Snow: bright: cloudy. 

 3. Snow-showers : clear. 4. Bright : frost : clear. 5. Rain. 6. Bright : rain. 

 7. Damp : clear. 8. Bright: clear. 9. Cloudy: rain. 10. Showers. 11. Bright: 

 cloudy. 12. Rain ; showers, 13. Bright: cloudy. 14. Frost : snow : clear. 

 15. Cloudy. 16. Cloudy: drizzle. 17. Drizzle. 18. Showers. 19. Hail- 

 showers. 20. Snow-showers: cloudy. 21. Showers. 22. Bright: cloudy. 

 23. Drizzle. 24. Bright; fine. 25,26, Showers. 27. Bright: drizzle. 28. 

 Sleet-showers, 29, Rain: showers. SO. Sleet: showers. 31. Snow-drift : clear, 

 Apjilegarih Manse, Dumfries-shire. — Jan. 1, Frost: snow-shower, 2. Frost, 

 severe. 3. Thaw : rain p.m. 4. Small rain. 5, 6. Heavy rain. 7. Showers. 

 S.Frost. 9. Snow : rain P.M. 10. Frost. 11. Fog. 12. Small rain. 13. Frost: 

 fair and fine. 14, 15. Frost : fine. 16. Slight frost, 17. Frost : fine, 18. Frost, 

 19, Showery, 20, Frost, slight, 21. Fair and clear. 22, Frost: fine. 23, 

 Frost : mild. 24, Fair and mild, 25. Rain at noon. 26. Fair and fine, 27. 

 Fair, but cloudy. 28. Shower, heavy. 29. Wet, 30. Rain : snow-shower. 

 31. Frost and snow, 



]\Iean temperature of the month 38°"4 



Mean temperature of January 1843 37 "8 



Mean temperature for twenty years 34 '2 



