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Wm. ‘Turquanb, Exchange and Stock Broker, No. 9, St. Michael’s Alley, Cornhill, 
Jan. 26.) 30th. 
Naturalist’s Monthly Report: — 197 
COURSE or EXCHANGE. 
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16th. { 20th. 
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30 71 30- 7] 30 
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NATURALIST’S MONTHLY REPORT. 
. JANUARY. 
Reviving Winter Month. . 
In beaded rows if drops now deck the sprays 
While Phebus grants a momentary ray, 
Lét but a cloud’s broad shadow interveng, 
And stiffen’d into gems the drops are seen. - 
Lint 
NT Y notes respecting the state of the weather, from the 1st to the 13th of January, ‘have 
" been mislaid and lost. In the morning of the i3th, however, I And that the wind, which’ 
had been westerly, had suddenly changed to the east, and was very cold and piercing, -In 
the night of the 13th there was a hard frost, which continued for several days afterwards, 
The weacher. during this time was fine, but extremely cold. 
On the 17th, the rivers were, 
in some places, frozen over. The wind was southerly in the morning and afternoon of the 
18th, but it was again easterly before the close of the day. 
In the nights of the 18th and 
19th, the frost was peculiarly severe. . We had some snow in the afternoon of the 22d, bur 
it continued on the ground only during the next day, Although the wind was easterly tild 
the end of the month, a thaw commenced on the 23d, which lasted till the evening of the 
27th. 
and we had rain. 
The frost again set in, and continued for about three days, when the wi.d changed, 
In the early part of the month a green sand-piper was shet. Thisis a rare bird in England, 
particularly in the southern districts. 
tainous countries, and is seldom seen near the sea. 
It chiefly frequents the lakes and rivulets of moun- 
in several parts of Switzerland, it is said 
to bea very common bird. 
in the Report for March last, I mentioned that a white weasel had several times been 
Seen about the premises of a farm-yardin this neighbourhood : an ex:mine or white stoat, has, 
this month, been shot within afew miles of the same place. ft is certainly an unusual 
citcumstance to see these animals, in their white winter’s dress, in a county which lies sw” 
far south as Hampsmnre. 
January 12th. 
ate heard.co sing. 
Redbreasts approach the houses, and are now almost the only birds which 
When, liowever, the days are oceusionally warmer than usual, the black» 
birds and thrushes do not neglect to cheer the givgimy scenery with their song; and J like 
wise sometimes hear the twittering notes of the wren. 
January 18th. The season for salmon-fishing commenced with the beginning of the 
mvunth; but hitherte only three fish have becn caught in our fivecs. 
Tee first, which 
weighed 
