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liot day was followed by a cold sea “ roke ” which, coming up from 
the north, in the evening, damped everything. On the 17th, 
migratory birds were heard whistling over the City, 
Juno proved as little like a summer month as the preceding, as 
regards warmth ; but almost incessant rain brought food in plenty 
for the birds. Fires, for the most jxart, took the place of sunshine 
by day and, with few exceptions, and those chiefly in the last week, 
the evenings were too chill and subject to white mists, for outdoor 
enjoyment. ^ An occasional bright, dry, day proved a grateful change 
and S. and S. W. winds were exceptional ; but on the 8th a severe 
thunderstorm occurred, the lightning doing much damage in one 
or two localities near the City. 
A nestling Magpie, just able to fly, was caught at Northrepps, 
M’here an old one had been shot about a fortnight before. Two 
Hooded Crows were also observed in the same locality on the 28th. 
July, thanks chiefly to S. and S.W. winds, proved much more 
genial in temperature, though with many more wet days than 
fine ones, and the evenings, with some few exceptions, had still an 
('>ctober chill about them. Severe temiiests visited the city on the 
3id, 10th, 26th, and 29th, with a deluge of rain on each occasion, 
and some hail, which with an excess of wet, generally, had as serious 
an eflect upon the crops as upon the spirits of the farmers. 
Insect food for the Hirundinei! abounded throughout this wann 
moist weather and Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., informed me that a 
pair of House Martins, at Xorthrepps, commenced and finished a 
nest at his house in three days. By the 19th, young Willow 
M rons which are not bred in my garden began to frequent the 
shrubs, a somewhat earlier date than usual. On the night of the 
31st birds were heard passing over the City ; the day° had been 
exceedingly cold and wet and the evening was dark and cloudy. 
A Magpie seen at Beeston, near Cromer, on the 2Gth, indicates 
their still nesting, though sparsely, in that part of the county. 
Presuming that, of late years, the seasons have got altogether 
mixed, summer may be said to have arrived in August, but though 
several dry, scorching days, occurred early in the month with S. and 
S.W. winds, a decided prevalence of 2^. and X.W. winds accounted 
for the low temperature of the evenings. Warm rains were 
frequent but, from the 14th to the 18th, we had five sunless days, 
cold and dismal as ^fovember, with occasional white mists but no 
