[379] Brehm (‘Illust. Thierleben,’ B. iv. s. 990) comes to the same conclusion.
[380] On the authority of L. Lloyd, ‘Game Birds of Sweden,’ 1867, p. 12, 132.
[381] ‘Nat. Hist. of Selbourne,’ letter xxix. edit. of 1825, vol. i. p. 139.
[382] Mr. Jenner Weir received similar information, on making enquiries during the following year. To shew the number of chaffinches caught, I may mention that in 1869 there was a match between two experts; and one man caught in a day 62, and another 40, male chaffinches. The greatest number ever caught by one man in a single day was 70.
[383] ‘Ibis,’ vol. ii. p. 260, as quoted in Gould’s ‘Trochilidæ,’ 1861, p. 52. For the foregoing proportions, I am indebted to Mr. Salvin for a table of his results.
[384] ‘Ibis,’ 1860, p. 137; and 1867, p. 369.
[385] ‘Ibis,’ 1862, p. 137.
[386] Leuckart quotes Bloch (Wagner, ‘Handwörterbuch der Phys.’ B. iv. 1853, s. 775), that with fish there are twice as many males as females.
[387] Quoted in the ‘Farmer,’ March 18, 1869, p. 369.
[388] ‘The Stormontfield Piscicultural Experiments,’ 1866, p. 23. The 'Field’ newspaper, June 29th, 1867.