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the 4th of December twenty-four Ghat Wild Geese were seen, 
flying low, at Northrepps, and forty-three Wild Swans off 
Weyborne on the same day. Four Bewick Swans were shot on 
Breydon on the 12th and a Bean Goose at Runton, one of a 
flock of five, on the 18th. These with two fine male Sheldrakes 
from Yarmouth and Westwick, an immature Sclavonian Grebe 
on the river near Earlham Bridge, and three Black-throated 
Divers, one immature and two nearly adult from Yarmouth, 
Blakeney and Salthouse seem to have been the only birds worth 
mentioning, during the month, in the hands of our bird-stuffers. 
VI. 
NOTES ON THE METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 
Recorded at Norwich during the tear 1875. 
By John Quinton, Jun., Assistant-Secretary. 
Registrar to the Norwich Meteorological Society. 
The remarkably cold weather which prevailed during December, 
1874, terminated on the 2nd of January, and was succeeded by 
quite as an unusual a period of mild weather throughout January. 
The mean temperature of the month was 40.9, and the winds mostly 
light from the S. and S.W. Mr. Glaisher states that it was the 
mildest January since 1846, and that only three times during the 
last hundred years had so high a mean temperature been recorded at 
Greenwich in January. The barometric pressure averaged at about 
the normal value ; the only remarkable fluctuation was a fall from 
29.942 at 9 p.m. the 22nd, to 29.054 at 3 p.m. the 24th ; at 9 a.m. 
the 25th it had risen to 29.143, and this was succeeded by a rapid 
rise to 30.127 at 9 a.m. the 26th, a rise of .984 in. in 24 hours; 
this was attended by a strong S.S.W. and W.S.W. gale, the daily 
velocity of the wind on the 24th and 25th was 370 and 382 miles. 
The rainfall for January exceeded the average by half-an-inch. On 
