60-305, Mo. III., MARCH 1, 188 . 



Temperature, mean ..40°'0 



max. in sun 83"0 



„ ,. shade 47-1 



,, min. „ shade 34"2 



,, ,, on grass 30'4 



,, accumltd. above 42° day-degs. 3'1 



,, ,, since 1st January l29'o 



Barometer (mean, Mo. iii, 29 '96) in. 



■ Mo. iii, 2'o6 in. on 14 days ^ 



Rainfall - since ist January, 6-403 in. L "066 in. 



mean rel. humidity 86 % j 



Wind, direction, &c 



Plants and Trees blossoming ; note if 

 surviving, premature, or and blossomings 

 LOOK FOR Buttercup (R.bulbosus) 100. 



Trees and Shrubs leafing ; seeds ger- 

 minating. 



Insects, Larvae &c. appearing. 

 Fish. Reptiles. 



Birds : migration, song, nesting, &c. 

 Brambling or Mountain Finch seen, Frin- 

 gilla montifringilla 



Animals : seen, breeding, &c. 



Fishing. Sports. Fly fishing begins. 

 Close season for wild birds Ijegins. 



Salmon (S). Trout (T) 



Coarse fish 



The Wild Birds Protection Acts provide a close season for all birds that are not 

 included under the head of " game." The general close season is between the ist 

 day of March and the ist day of August, but exceptions are made in different 

 counties by authority of the Home Secretary. The close season has been altered 

 in Lincolnshire, and also in the county of Huntingdon, the liberty of Peterborough, 

 and the Isle of Ely — from March 15 to August 31 (both inclusive) ; in Essex till 

 March 15 as regards curlew, dunbird, godwit, oxbird, snipe, widgeon, wild goose, 

 and woodcock ; and in Northumberland the close season is between March I and 

 August II. In that part of Devonshire which is included within the limits of the 

 Exe Fishery District, the operation of the Act is suspended as far as cormorants or 

 shags are concerned ; so that these birds may be killed throughout the close season, 

 owing to their destructiveness to the salmon fiiiheries. 



