Pheasant {Phasianus Colchicus) crows 

 Land tortoise comes forth 

 Lungwort {Ptiltnonoria officinalis) fl. 

 Podura Jimetaria ap. 

 Aranea scenica saliens ap. 

 Scolopendra forficata ap. 

 Wryneck {Jynx torquilld) ap. 



Goose {Anas anser) sits on its eggs 

 Duck {A nas boschas') lays 

 Dog's violet {Viola canina) fl. 

 Peacock butterfly {Papilio Id) ap. 



Trouts begin to rise 

 Field beans {Vicia faba) planted 

 Bloodworms appear in the water 

 Crow {Corvus Corone) builds 



Oats {A vena sativd) sown 



Golden crowned wren {Sylvia regulus) 



sings 

 Asp {Populus tremuld) fl. 

 Common elder {Sambucus nigra) 1. 

 Laurel {Prunus laurocerasus) fl. 

 Chrysomela Gotting. ap. 

 Black ants {Formica nigra) ap. 

 Ephemerce bisetce ap. 

 Gooseberry {Ribes grossularia) 1. 

 Common stitch wort {Stellar ia holostea) fl. 

 Wood anemone {A nemone netnorosa) fl. 

 Blackbird {Turdus Merula) lays 



Raven {Corvus Corax) sits 

 Wheatear {Sylvia QLnanthe) ap. 



Mush-wood crowfoot {Adoxa moschattel- 



lina) fl. 

 Willow wren* {Sylvia trochilus) ap. 



* Willow Wren. — Mr. White has made strange confusion in the entries respecting 

 the wrens in his calendar. Three sorts were known to him, as he distinctly says m a 

 former passage: the Sylvia trochilus^ a yellow wren ; the Sylvia sibilatrix, or wood 

 wren ; the Sylvia hippolais.^ or chiff-chaff ; but he enters the separate appearance of 

 four such wrens in the Calendar, although there were not four species known in this 

 country, nor did he ever fancy that there were four. By reference to what he has said 

 in other places, it should seem that the chiff-chaff appears the first. Therefore, in the 

 entry, March 19th, we must read, instead of willow wren, Sylvia trochilus^ chiff-chaff, 



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