332 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
20th.—Song-Thrushes fairly numerous and in good song. 
21st.—Winter aconite in flower. 
23rd.—Mr. Calvert writes that a few days ago, when he was 
waiting for Wood-Pigeons at Potter’s Hill, a Merlin came and 
sat in a tree near him. 
27th.—Hardly a Fieldfare to be seen now. 
28th.—A bitterly cold day, E.N.E., and weather cold and 
dry (except a little snow) until end of the year. Temperature 
nearly the same day and night. Song-Thrushes find a few 
Helix aspersa to hammer. 
Rain on sixteen days to amount of 3} in.; wind chiefly 8.W. 
until nearly the end of the month. 
