XXVi. The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 
We have been very fortunate to obtain from Mr. H. B. Wimbush 
permission to take a photograph of one of his sketches of Ramsey 
for the frontispiece to our volume, which gives a very faithful ren- 
dering of the peculiar shapes of the rocks at the south-westend. We 
wished at first to have reproduced the sketch as a chromo-lithograph, 
being anxious to give some representation of the brilliant colouring 
that is so marked a feature of the island, but were deterred by the 
cost, as well as by the fear of disappointment and failure in the 
result, and must hope, therefore, that after the description we have 
attempted above of the varied hues that deck beautiful kaleidoscopic 
Ramsey, our readers may be capable of supplying them for them- 
selves. Mr. Wimbush paints the rocky coasts of the St. David’s 
headland, and of Ramsey, with a most loving and appreciative brush, 
as he was himself educated at St. David’s by Dr. Propert, and went 
egging oftentimes on Ramsey in company with the Doctor’s two 
sons, the Rev. Sydney and Mr. Mortimer Propert, when all three 
used often to risk their lives, when boys, in dangling by a rope 
over its dangerous cliffs while collecting the eggs of the Pere- 
grine, Buzzard, and Raven, and those of the Guillemot and other 
cliff-birds upon their ledges. We have been privileged to see some 
charming drawings of the St. David’s coast in Mr. Wimbush’s 
studio at Finchley, in which every detail in the cliffs, every rock and 
pebble on the beach below, the sandy shore with its rippling fringe 
of waves, are rendered with an exquisite fidelity, the result being a 
combined sea and landscape of great beauty and artistic power. The 
cliff-birds’ eggs from Ramsey are finely-marked specimens. Curious 
and handsome varieties of the eggs of the Guillemot, Razorbill, and 
Kittiwake may be obtained. Any visitor to St. David’s who is at all 
an oologist ought not to fail to request permission—sure to be 
courteously granted—to inspect the wonderful series of eggs in Dr. 
Propert’s cabinet, all of them taken by the Doctor and his sons on 
Ramsey, Grasholm, and the Bishop’s Rocks. We ourselves possess 
some beautiful eggs of the various Ramsey birds, including those of 
the Chough, Common Buzzard, Sea-Pie, and Greater Black-backed 
Gull, the last from the Bishop’s Rocks, and are, in particular, proud 
of our varieties of the eggs of the Kittiwake. We have also egg 
