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19th. — News from Mr. Heatley Noble of a Puffin caught alive 

 recently in Oaken Grove, a few yards over our borders in Bucks. 



23rd. — Very few Fieldfares here, and I can see no Eedwings 

 now. 



24th. — Near Thrup I saw a flock of Peewits and Golden 

 Plovers (separating at once) rise from some rushy fields. A 

 Kestrel quietly hunting along a hedgerow at 4.15 p.m., seventeen 

 minutes after sunset, and misty. 



25th. — Milder weather again. Song-Thrushes singing again. 



Mr. Fowler reported three or four Hooded Crows at Kingham 

 about the end of this month, and a flock of Golden Plovers. 



A rather wet month. About 2| inches of rain fell on nine- 

 teen days. 



December 3rd. — An aconite just out. Chimonanthus in flower. 



13th. — Galanthus elwesi out. Fieldfares and Eedwings in 

 quite small numbers this year, although the hedges are red with 

 hips and haws. 



19th. — A big flock of Fieldfares passed over, going south. 



20th. — Colder weather. 



21st. — Two or three inches of snow on ground. 



23rd.— Very big floods about Oxford. Few Song-Thrushes 

 wintering here. 



24th. — More Eedwings have arrived. 



28th. — A very heavy fall of snow at night, fortunately melt- 

 ing to some extent. 



29th. — Snowstorm was one of heaviest of recent years, and 

 had not much of it melted as it fell, snow would have been very 

 deep. As it is, it is six inches deep, and all shrubs much bowed 

 down. A good deal of damage done. Fieldfares passing over 

 at 4.30 p.m. ; moonlight. 



30th. — Snow melting fast. 



31st. — Country very wet. Great floods in all the valleys. 

 An Egyptian Goose, a straying bird of course, was shot about 

 the end of the month at Great Eollright. 



A very wet month ; over 6 inches of rain besides snow, and 

 it rained on twenty-three days. 



