208 Mr. A. Newton on the Irruption of 



Three said to have been shot on the 13th May*^ and one 

 several days later. All the specimens killed were males. Mr. 

 Tristram, in Hit., 12th June, and 'Times/ 17th June. 



106. Whitburn, 1° 20' W. Two flocks seen to settle in 

 standing corn, about middle of June. Mr. John Hancock tj 

 ' Transactions of Tyneside Naturalists' Field-Club.^ 



107. Oleron, 1° 25' W. Three killed in this island in Octo- 

 ber. M. Berthemieux, R. Z. pp. 423, 424. 



108. Sheffield, 1° 28' W. Four shot, out of a flock on the 

 moors, at the end of May. Mr. C. Doncaster, ' Zool.' p. 8688. 



109. Biscarolle, 1° 30' W.?J One of three captured in a 

 pine-nursery, 3rd June. Dr. de Montessus, R. Z. p. 402. 



110. Farsley, 1° 32' W. Two killed, out of a flock of four- 

 teen, 10th June. Mr. W. Liversedge, ' Zool.' p. 8689 ; and Mr. 

 W. Christy Horsfall, ' Zool.' p. 8722. 



111. Cowpen, 1° 32' W. A male shot, out of a flock of about 

 twelve. In ]\fr. Hancock's possession. Two or three more 

 killed in the neighbourhood, and in the possession of Mr. Snow- 

 don at Alnwick. Mr. John Hancock, ut supra citatum. 



112. Thropton, 1° 34' W. Two males and one female shot, 

 at 3 o'clock A.M., 21st May, out of a flock of fourteen. Mr. 



* If there is no mistake here, these birds are the earhest obtained in 

 England that year ; but on tracing the course of flight across the continent 

 of Europe, I feel sure that the date assigned is at least a week too soon. 

 My energetic friend is far too well employed just now in the Holy Land to 

 make me regret his absence, though I am thereby prevented from having 

 the matter cleared up satisfactorily. 



•\ Mr. Hancock has been at great pains to ascertain the exact particu- 

 lars of all the occurrences of Syrrhaptes in Northumberland and Durham ; 

 I shall therefore in this case, as I did in that of Mr. Stevenson's compen- 

 dium for Norfolk and Suffolk, abide implicitly by his determinations, to the 

 exclusion of original authorities. Mr. Hancock most kindly forwarded me, 

 as I before stated, his very valuable paper ; but, as it was in manuscript, I 

 am unable to cite the exact references to it. 



X I am unable to identify this place with accuracy ; but I believe it is 

 close to Bayonne, and is consequently the most southern limit of the 

 irruption recorded, as that town is in latitude 43° 2.9' N. This occurrence 

 is probably the one alluded to by M. Leon Olph-Galliard, J. f. O. p. 390. 



