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summer, and we are in close mourning for it in coals and ashes. 
It froze last night ; I went out for a moment to look at my hay- 
makers, and was starved. The contents of an English June 
are hay and ice, orange flowers and rheumatisms ! I am now 
cowering over the fire.” Matters improved later on, for on Sep- 
tember 16th he says, “Yesterday the sun shone all day and the 
moon at night, and all Nature for three miles round looked gay. 
Indeed we have had nine or ten days of such warmth and 
serenity (here called heat) as I scarce remember when the year 
begins to have grey — or rather yellow — hairs.” 
1791 - 
First seen. 
Not seen after. 
Swallow 
April 13 ... 
November 1 
Martin 
May 4 
November 1 
Sand Martin ... 
May 10 
September 23 
Swift ... 
April 28 
August 12 
Goat Sucker ... 
August 30 ... 
September 4 
Wryneck 
May 12 
Cuckoo 
May g 
Nightingale ... 
April 13 
Whitethroat ... 
April 21 
August 30 
Wheatear 
J une 1 
September 22 
Whinchat 
April 21 
September 23 
Redstart 
April 12 
September 15 
Willow Wren (M. Trochilus) 
May 16 
September 20 
Flycatcher 
May 8 
August 22 
Redbacked Shrike ... 
May 30 
Fieldfare 
October 24... 
March 12 
Redwing 
October 1 
Woodcock 
October 1 . .. 
March 14 
Snipe ... 
November 30 
March 1 1 
For the following birds his 
dates in previous years, and 
unrecorded in 1791, are as follow 
s : — 
First seen. 
Not seen after. 
Turtle Dove ... 
June 1 
August 2 
Black Cap 
April 24 
September 17 
My own few observations in 
Dorsetshire 
for 1891 are as 
follows : — 
Flycatcher 
Nightingale ... 
First seen. 
May 31 
May 6 
Cuckoo 
April 21 
Swallow 
April 18 
Swift ... 
May 31 
Redbacked Shrike ... 
June 2 
Redstart 
May 6 
Theodora Guest. 
[As most of our readers know, a summary of Markwick’s 
observations is appended to many editions of the Natural History 
of Selborue, where they are compared with the similar calendar 
