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November 4. The swallows and martins have at length commenced their flight. They 
began to congregate towards the latter end of October, and 1 have not seen them since No- 
vember 3. In my notes of last year I find that the departure of the great body of these 
birds was several days earlier than at present. 
The two common species of bat continue to flit about in the evenings, though certainly 
fot in such numbers as in the summer and autumn. 
In consequence of the mild weather we have had, several of the autumnal plants are still 
in flower; particularly the round-leaved and sharp pointed snap-dragon (aztirrbinum spuriume 
and e/atine), red-tlowered campion (/ychuis dioica), wall flower (cheiranthus cheiri), soft-leaved 
cranesbill (geranium molle), and hemlock-leaved cranesbill (geranium cicutarium). 
November 10. The fruit of the buck-berry tree (rhamaus grangula), and barberry, are 
ripe. 
 Naieaien 19. A few leaves are yet left on the upper branches of the poplar trees, and 
several on the elmtrees. Those of the oak, which have not been shed, have turned brown. 
The leaves of the weeping-willow fall. ‘ ai 
In the decayed trunk of an ash tree were found an immense quantity of the perfect insects, 
larvz, and chrysalids, of the stag-beetle (/ucanus cervus). The latter were inclosed in cases 
of earth, which the larvae, previously to their change, had formed, by means of a gluten, 
indissoluble by common moisture, with which their bodies are supplied. ‘There were, in the 
whole, some scores of these insects, in their different states. 
November 21. The flowers of the strawberry-tree (ardutus unedo), fall off every day in 
great numbers. : 
November 27. The small birds begin to congregate. 
November 30. In pastures, and along the sides of roads, I observe by the Jittle billocks 
that are thrown up, that the moles have not yet been impeded, by the advanced season, in 
their works under the surface of the ground. 
Hampshire. 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of November, to the 24th 
of December, 1809, inclusive, Four Miles N.N.W. of St. Paul's. 
Barometer. Thermometer. 
Highest, 29:7. many days. Higheft, 50°. Dec, 6. Wind S. W. 
Lowest, 27:9. Dec. 18. Wind N. W. Lowest, 30°. Dec. 21. Wind N. WwW.’ 
At noon, onthe 
18th, the mercury This variation occur= 
: Greatest g « h f : 
Greatest » 84 hun- stood at 28°14, & fF. ah oe red three or four times 
variation in € dredths <_on the subsequent Wee * in the course of the 
24 hours. of aninch, }day, at the same | ~* % ies month. 
hour, it was as 
high as 29-98. 
The quantity of rain fallen, since the last Report, is equal to somewhat more than six 
inches in depth. This avery large proportion of rain for the season: for many years, no- 
thing like it, has ‘happened. In December, 1806, the quantity of rain was equal to five 
inches and a half, but, with this exception, no December, for the last ten years, has 
jurnished so much as three inches. ; aati 2" 
The barometer, taking the average of the whole month is equal to 29-154 only, a circum- 
stance that rarely happens, as the reader will observe, if he take the trouble of examining 
our volumes: but what is more extraordinary, and deserving of notize, is, that, on the 18th 
instant, the mercury stood as low as 27-9, a fact that never before occurred to our observa- 
tion. The student, accustomed to look in books on this subject, will know, that all 
authors take for granted, that the range of the mercury is ever between twenty-eight 
inches and thirty-one: this then is an exceptionto the rule. The depression of the barome- 
ter accounts for the large quantity of rain; aad they, both conjoined, will sufficiently ac- 
count for the mildness of the season; the average temperature of the thermometer being 
equal to 36:5. ar | ne | a. 
The characteristic of the preseht monthy independently of the mildness of its temperature, 
and the quantity of rain fallen, is given to it by the storms of rain and wind, which have 
been several times very t:emendous, and which have done much mischief on our coast. The 
fogs in this neighbourhood have been trifling: the rainy days include full half the month, and 
en three or four we bave had light falls of snow. a ITE . EON. 
The wind has blown ten days from the north-west, nine from the south-west, and seven 
from the west. pe & att Sh tha 
Inthe next Number of the Monthly Magazine will be given a summary of Meteorological 
Observations for the whole year. . ~ MONTHLY. 
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