The Renewed Irruption of Syrrhaptes

Abstract

THANKS to your kindness in printing a note of mine a few weeks since (p. 103), I have received from your correspondents a large amount of help in the task I have undertaken; but there is, to me at least, a complete blank as regards observations of Syrrhaptes this year in France. It is almost impossible for the invasion to have missed that country, since Italy and Spain even have been visited in greater force than upon any one of the former occasions, yet not a word of the birds being seen in France on the present occasion has come to me, notwithstanding the inquiries I have made of French ornithologists. I would ask such of your readers as may be in that country to send me any tidings they may obtain. In 1863 there were at least a dozen French localities recorded, and in some of them large flocks were seen. I can hardly suppose that it has been otherwise this year.