290 THE CALENDAR OF FLORA. 
Feb. 4. WOOD LARK, 69.2. Alauda arborea , 
fings. 
Elder tree, 461. Sambucus nigra, f. 
12. ROOKS, 39.3. Corvus frugilegus, begin to 
pair . 
GEESE, 136.1. anfer> begin to lay . 
* WAGTAIL WHITE, 75.1. Motacilla 
alba , appears. 
16. THRUSH, 64.2. Tardus mujicus^jings. 
f CHAFFINCH, 88. Fringilla Calebs, 
fings. 
20. 'Thermometer , 1 1. High eft this month. 
Thermometer , -2. Loweft this month . 
22. PARTRIDGES, 57. Tetrao per dix^ begin 
to pair. 
Hafel tree, 439. Corylus avellana^ F. 
25. Goofeberry bufh, 1484. H. 
Currant, red, 456.1. Ribesf plants. 
rubruniy 1 . J 
Thermometer from the iqth to the 25th, be- 
tween o - 1 fnow. 
Wind during the latter half of the month be- 
tween E. and N. 
* The wagtail is faid by Willughby to remain with us all the year 
in the fevered weather. It feems to me to ffiift its quarters at lead, if 
it does not go out of England. However, it is certainly a bird of 
paffage in lome countries, if we can believe Aldrovandus, the author 
of the Swedilh Calendar, and the author of the treatife De Migratio- 
nibus Avium. Linnaeus obferves, S. N. Art. Motacilla, that mod 
birds which live upon infers, and not grains, migrate. 
f Linnseus fays, that the female chaffinch goes to Italy alone, thro’ 
Holland ; and that the male in the fpring, changing its note, foretells 
the fummer : and Gefner, ornithol. p. 388. lays that the female 
chaffinch difappears in Switzerland ir» the winter, but not the male. 
ill. 
