dE The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 
and either round, or pass over the Land’s End district of Cornwall. 
But we think that Pembrokeshire takes but little part in the flux 
and reflux of Hibernian birds.! 
CENSUS OF THE BIRDS OF PEMBROKESHIRE. 
The list of the county birds supplied by Mr. H. Mathias, of 
Haverfordwest, to Mason’s “‘ Guide to ‘Tenby ”’ contains 191 species, 
but two ofthese, the Aivecrest, and Briinnich’s Guillemot, we are 
unable to accept. We have so often received brightly plumaged 
males of the Goldcrest, sent to us as Zirecrests, that we suspect a 
similar mistake in this instance, particularly as we have been unable 
to trace any Pembrokeshire /ivecres¢, and have never discovered one 
in any of the existing collections of county birds. In a list of birds 
nesting on Skomer Island that we received from a friend the 
Firecrest is actually included! With regard to Briinnich’s Guillemot 
there is no doubt that a confusion has been made between that 
species and the &Rinzged Guillemot (Uria lacrymans), for Mr. 
Mathias assured us that Sriinznich’s Guillemot (sic) nested on 
Skomer, whereas this northern form of Guillemot is not known to 
nest anywhere south of Greenland, and the few accidental specimens 
that have been reported as having been obtained upon our coasts 
are viewed by competent ornithologists with much suspicion. The 
Rey. C. M. Phelps, at the foot of Mr. Mathias’ list, adds two birds 
that are omitted in it, the Golden Oriole and the Rose Coloured 
Pastor, thus bringing the total to 191, as given above. In our 
account of the birds of Pembrokeshire, including three doubtful 
occurrences, we can only bring the gross total to 236. On the 
opposite side of the Bristol Channel we have been able to catalogue 
as many as 300 species for the much larger county of Devon, and 
264 species for the county of Somerset. Mr. Howard Saunders, in 
his “‘Manual of British Birds,” the most recent authority on the subject, 
gives the total number of birds for the British Isles as 368, so that 
From the reports from the South Bishop’s and Smalls Light-houses we find 
that Blackbirds, Thrushes, Sky-larks, Linnets, Chaffinches, House Sparrows, 
Starlings, and Rooks, pass over to Ireland w/@ the Pembrokeshire Coast. 
