GG8 
MB. A. w. Preston’s meteorological notes. 
Seeling. 
Sharp-set. 
Stoop. 
Swivel. 
Tiercel. 
Varvels. 
Waiting on. 
Weather. 
Yarak. 
An old method of obscuring the sight of a Hawk, 
which is now obsolete in this country. 
Very hungry. 
The rapid descent of a Talcon from a height on to 
its prey. 
U sed to prevent j esses andleash from becoming twisted. 
Male Peregrine and sometimes Goshawk. 
Silver ring at end of jess. 
The Hawk to soar in circles above the head of the 
Palconer in e.xpectation of game beiug,sprung. 
To place a Hawk in the open air. 
An Eastern term, signifying when the short-winged 
Hawks are in hunting condition. 
XI. 
METEOROLOGICAL NOTES, 1888. 
By Arthur W. Preston, F. E. Met. Soc. 
Read 2 gtli January., i88g. 
J ANUABY. 
The year entered with severe frost, which, however, soon broke up 
and gave way for a few days to abnormal mildness — the thermometer 
rising to 53 and 54 degrees on the 8th, 9th, and 10th. The 
weather was foggy, cold, and changeable to the 25th, and after 
a gale on the 26th became extremely severe with heavy falls of snow 
to the month’s close. 
February. 
The frost continued almost without intermission throughout this 
month, the degree of cold registered on the morning of the 2nd 
(9.6 degrees) being the lowest reading of the thermometer since 
January 26th, 1881. The mean temperature of the last nineteen 
days of the month was 31.7 degrees, or more than 8 degrees below 
the average; of the last eight days, 28.8 degrees, or 12 degrees 
below; and that of the month, 33.9 degrees, or 6 degrees below. 
There has been no February with so low a mean temperature since 
1855. The same month, in the years 1827, 1838, 1845, and 1853, 
