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Ife of Wight, and in Suffex, Hampfhire, and Dorfetthire; but they are effentially different 
trom thefe fith, as is apparent on the flighteft infpeétion, They want that peculiar fmelt 
from which the Simelts have derived their name 3 and they have, along each fide of theirbody, © 
extending from the head to the tail, a bright filvery longitudinal band, that is not to be 
found in the latter. Atherines are generally caught either by fine Seine nets, or in a fmall 
round net with an iron rim, fufpended, by cords, to the end of a pole. This is let down to 
the bottom of the water, where it is not very deep; and when part of the thoal are obferved 
ta the act of fwimming over it, the net is raifed gently up, and the fith, rifing with it to the 
turface, are theneafily fecured, by fuddeniy drawing itout. - ~~ 
A Goat-fucker, or Fern Gwl, was fhot and fent to me on the 26th of May. Thefe birds 
are merely fummer inhabitants of Great Britain. They are generally firft obferved about. 
the middle of May, and continue till nearly the end of September. Their very Sogular 
note, not much unlike the continued whirring of a fpinning-wheel, may be heard almoft 
every fine evening in woods and copfes of the South of England. ‘Treir flight is very flow, 
and they fall on almoft the fighteft wound. Pe lesit tee id 
The Wheatears are arrived, buat hicherto I have obferved very few. 
T this year obferve more Giow-worms on the banks by the road fides, than IT have done © 
fer the lafi two years, and fomie that I have remarked have been peculiarly luminous. It is 
not often that [ have been able to difcover the males; but.a few evenings ago, in taking one 7 
of the females into my hand, I took up at the fame time a male that happened to be along | 
with her. caaveen 
On the firft of June I caught a remarkably fine fpecimen of the Poplar Hawk Math, /pbinx * 
_ populi, of Linnzeus. It was a female; and fhe depofited inthe box where I kept her-about two 
hundred eggs. In the courfe of ten days a confiderable portion of thefe were hatched. Iam 
very defirous of preferving them alive, but much doubt whether I fhaW be able to do it,. 
although I have fupplied them with branehes of the poplar tree. In their proper ftate the 
farveé of this moth feed only on the pith, or young wood of the trees og which the eggs ate: 
depofited. They undergo their change, into chryfalids, under the furface of the ground. 
The Cockchaffers this year are very :tew and hitherto I have not abferved a fingle fpeci- 
men of the Stag Beetle (/ucanus cervus of Linnzeus), which are fometimes feen in confiderable 
numbers. Both thefe infe&ts were much more tumerous than ufual in the fummer of 1804.< 
The Field Crickets, gryllus campefiris, are now heard every evening, making their fhrill — 
chirping noife in almoit all the fields. There is to me fomething extremely pleafing in the 
notes, if they may be fo called, that are produced by thefe little animals. 
The Orange-tip Butterfly, papilio cardamifies, during. the prefent month may -frequently- 
be feen flying along the fides of the roads, and almoft under every hedge. “a +: 
The Foreft-fties, hipgobofca equina, begin to be very teafing to the horfes. 
Corifichurch, Hampjbire. .-* 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT, - 
Gbfervations on the State af the Weather from the 24th of May, #0 the 24th of Fune, 1896, 
~ intlefe, two Miles NW. of St. Paul’s. 4 
Barometer. ‘' Ehermometer. Ss 
Higheft 30 42., June 19. Wind NE, Higheft 823, June 14. Wind S.E. 
Lowel 29.50., June'4.. Wind S.-W. | Loweft’ 45, feveral mornings. p 
Betweenthe mid- | _ ae 
dle of the day on a ee This ‘difference in 
the 34 and the |  Greateft the temperature has 
Greatett 41 hun-< fame hour on the | variation-in s20°. < eccurred four or five 
Wariation ia 7. dredths g4th the mercury | 24 hours, - #times in the cogsfe of 
24 hours. }ofaninch, f fell from. 30.05 | . the month. : 
4 to 29. 64. . 
The quantity of rain fallen fince the laft report is too trifling to be noticed; excepting that 
which fell on the 4th“inftant, there has fcarcely been a fingle thower. ; | 
The mean temperature for the whole month has been fomething higher than 60°; not- . 
withfanding the general heat experienced, the northerly and eafterly winds have been oc- 
cafionally very fevere, and the changes from heat to cold and wice verfa, have been very con- 
fiderable and feverely felt. ‘Twenty-four days of the thirty-one have beea what. we may de- » 
nominate brilli@mt, and the feafon which was deemed backward a few weeks fince, has been 
confiderably advanced. In fome parts of the country there have been heavy ftorms attended 
with thunder, lightning, and hail. Befides the day on which the thermometer was at 82 it 
has heen twice at 81°. ae 
The average height of the barometer is thirty inches. The wind has blowna good deal 
from north and eaft. . 
Errata in this Number, at page 510, col. 2, for congugate vead conjugate, and at page 503 
Col. 2, for 7 millions of leagues read 7 billions of leagues. vo Uae g Oe eto 
