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NATURALIST S CALENDAR. 



W HITE. 



Wall-flower (cheiranthus clieiri ; seu fru- 



ticulosus of Smith) fl. Jail. 8, April 1 



Stock (cheiranthus incanus) fl. Jan. 8 12 



Emberiza alba (bunting) in great flocks Jan. 9 



Linnets (fringilla linota) congregate Jan. 9 



Lambs begin to fall Jan. 9 11 

 Rooks (corvus frugilegus) resort to their 



nest trees Jan. 10, Feb. 11 



Black hellebore (helleborus niger) fl. Jan. 10 



Snow-drop (galanthus nivalis) fl. Jan. 10, Feb. 5 



White dead-nettle (lamium album) fl. Jan. 13 



Trumpet honey-suckle, fl. Jan. 13 

 Common creeping crow-foot (ranunculus 



repens) fl. Jan. 13 



House-sparrow (fringilla domestica) chirps Jan. 14 



Dandelion (leontodon taraxacum) fl. Jan. 16, Mar. 11 



Bat (vespertilio) ap. Jan. 16, Mar. 24 



Spiders shoot their webs Jan. 16 



Butterfly, ap. Jan. 16 



Brambling (fringilla montifringilla) ap. Jan. 16 



Blackbird (turdus merula) whistles Jan. I 1 / 



Wren (sylvia troglodytes) sings Jan. 17 



Earth-worms lie out Jan. 18, Feb. 8 



Crocus (crocus vernus) fl. Jan. 13, Mar. 18 



Skylark (alauda arvensis) sings Jan. 21 



Ivy (hedera helix) casts its leaves Jan. 22 



Helleborus hiemalis, fl. Jan. 22 24 

 Common dor, or clock (scarabfeus ster- 



corarius) Jan. 23 



Peziza acetabulum, ap. Jan. 23 



Helleborus virid, fl. Jan. 23, Mar. 5 



Hazel (corylus avellana) fl. Jan. 23, Feb. 1 



Woodlark (alauda arborea) sings Jan. 24, Feb. 21 



Chaffinch (fringilla ccelebs) sings Jan. 24, Feb. 15 



Jack-daws begin to come to churches Jan. 25, Mar. 4 



Yellow wagtail (motacilla flava) ap. Jan. 25, Apr. 14 



Honeysuckle (lonicera periclymenum) 1. Jan. 25 

 Field or procumbent speedwell (veronica 



agrestis) fl. Jan. 27, Mar. 15 



Nettle butterfly (papilio urticse) ap. Jan. 27, April 2 



White wagtail (motacilla alba) chirps Jan. 28 



Shell-snail (helix nemoralis) ap. Jan. 28, Feb. 24 



Earth-worms engender Jan. 30 



Barren strawberry (fragaria sterilis) fl. Feb. 1 , Mar. 26 



Blue titmouse (parus caeruleus) chirps Feb. 1 



Brown wood-owls hoot Feb. 2 



Hen (phasianus gallus) sits Feb. 3 

 Marsh titmouse begins his two harsh sharp 



notes Feb. 3 



Gossamer floats Feb. 4, April 1 



Musca tenax, ap. Feb. 4, April 8 



Larustine (viburnum tinis) fl. Feb. 5 



Butcher's broom (ruscus aculeatus) fl. Feb. 5 



Fox (canis vulpes) smells rank Feb. 7 



Turkey-cocks strut and gobble Feb. 10 



Yellow-hammer (emberiza citrinella) sings Feb. 12 



Brimstone butterfly (papilio rhainnD ap. Feb. 13, April 2 



MARK WICK. 



Feb. 21, May 9 

 Feb. 1, June 3 



Jan. 11 



Jan. 6, Feb. 21 



Jan. 23 



April 27 



Jan. 18, March 1 



March 23, May 10 



April 10, May 12 

 Feb. 17, May 9 

 Feb. 1, April 17 

 Feb. 6, June J , 

 lastseen Nov. 20 



Feb. 21, May 8; 

 lastseen Dec. 22 

 Jan. 1031 

 Feb. 15, May 13 

 Feb. 7, June 12 



Jan. 20, March 19 



Jan. 12, Feb. 27; 



sings till Nov. 13 



Feb. 28, April 17 



Feb. 12, April 19; 

 last seen Nov. 24 



Jan. 27, March 11 

 Jan. 28, June 5 

 Jan. 21, Feb. 26 



April 13, July 3 ; 

 last seen Sept. 8 

 Jan. 1, April 9 



Feb. 12, March 29 

 Mar. 5, April 24 ; 

 last seen June 6 

 March 16 

 April 2, June 11 



Jan. 13, March 26 

 April 27 



March 8, hatches 



Jan. 1, April 5 

 Jan. 1, May 10 

 May 19, 'young 

 brought forth 



Feb. 18, April 28 

 Feb. 13, March 8 ; 

 last seen Dec ^4 



