Rainfall far Jf^bruarg. 





Height 







Total Fall 









of 



Rain- 

 fall. 



No. 



TO Date. 



Date of 



Amount 





gauge 

 above 



of 







heaviest 



of 



heaviest 

 Fall. 





Days 







Fall. 





sea 

 level. 







1878. 



1877. 







Ft 



In. 













HUDDERSFIELD (DaltOD.) ... 



350 



2-36 



20 



3-22 



* 5-75 



8 



0-57 



(J. W. Robson) 

















Leeds ... (H. Crowtlier) ... 



183 



2-81 



23 



4-13 





13 



0-42 



Halifax... (F. G. S. Eawson) 



360 



4-52 



21 



5-82 



7-40 







Baenslet ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



2-49 



22 



3-57 



3-28 



33 



0-37 



Ingbirchwoeth (do.) 



853 



3-21 



25 



4-40 



5-05 



8 



0-50 



Wentwoeth Castle (do.)... 



520 



2-53 



20 



3-92 



3-79 



14 



0-40 



GooLE ... (H. F. Parsons) t 



25 



2-73 



21 



3-79 



1-93 



15 



0-50 



* This is the average to date for 13 years, 1866-78. 



Baknsley Naturalists' Society. — Meeting March 4th. — Observations 

 of birds from this neighbourhood and other places were made. Not much 

 was reported of insects and flowers, which are late in appearing. 

 Feb. 6th, a sandpiper noted in the Dearne valley ; I7th, yellow hammer, 

 also the great tit ; 21st, many corn buntings at Day House, among the 

 stacks ; a golden plover, among peewits, redwings, &c., found dead ; 

 26th, flocks of starlings reappear ; 27th, chaffinches in song ; March 3rd, 

 a gannet shot at Carlton, near Barnsley, not recorded in this neighbour- 

 hood before ; 8th, grey wagtail seen at Cudworth, brood rarely noted 

 this severe season — kingfishers, a few bullfinches noted at intervals ; 

 12th, pied wagtails reappear near houses, these residents and others, 

 as larks, buntings, and thrushes, partially disappearing during the intense 

 frosts. J. E. Palmer, formerly of Huddersfield, writes from Dublin that 

 the birds are dying by hundreds ; he had dissected two thrushes, a star- 

 ling, sparrow, &c., found dead, and their crops were empty except that 

 the thrushes and starlings had remains of snail shells. Mr. Talbot writes 

 (March 3rd) to record two Canadian geese, a hawfinch, and two female 

 merlins. On one day, during a fall of snow, were noted eight common 

 and thirteen yellow buntings, six chaffinches, five greenfinches, and two 

 mountain finches. Of waterfowl in that part and at Cold Hiendley dam, 

 which supplies the Barnsley and Wakefield canal, have been seen many 

 wild ducks, including golden-eye, wigeon, pochard, and scaup duck. Mr. 

 E. Hailstone, of Walton Hall, informed me on March 7th that on the 

 breaking up of the frost early in March there were 400 waterfowl on the 



