Xvi. The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 
his father, Dr. Propert, and his brother, the Rey. Sydney Propert, has 
formed a very beautiful collection of birds’ eggs, all obtained around 
St. David’s, and on the islands of Ramsey and Grasholm, the 
Bishop’s Rock, &c. These are chiefly sea-birds’ eggs. The series of 
Guillemots’ eggs is hardly to be surpassed in any private collection ; 
and there are some very fine and handsome specimens of the eggs of 
the Chough, Raven, Common Buzzard, Peregrine, &c., &c. There 
are no very important collections of birds in the county. We have 
already mentioned those of Mr, Fortune, and Mr. Mathias, and we 
have only one other to describe, and this, perhaps, the most interest- 
ing of the three, is that in the possession of Lord Cawdor, at Stack- 
pole. Although several of the rarest of the birds were long ago pre- 
sented, as we have already related, to the National Collection, yet 
there are many scarce and valuable birds still preserved in it. Most 
of the birds were shot on the Stackpole estate, and were set up by 
Mr. James Tracy, of Pembroke. We were allowed the privilege of 
inspecting this interesting collection, and were at the time furnished 
by Lord Cawdor with particulars respecting the capture of some 
of the rarest of the birds. We have been informed that there is 
also a collection of birds at Slebech, the seat of Baron de Ritzen, 
but we have not seen it, and consequently are unable to state 
what it contains. The Rev. Clennell Wilkinson, Rector of Castle 
Martin, and for some time President of the Pembrokeshire Field 
Naturalists’ Club, gave us much information respecting the birds 
of the Castle Martin district, and we had the pleasure of visiting 
the celebrated Stack Rocks in his company. We are indebted to 
many friends, too numerous to mention, for delightful days ot sport 
over the romantic covers of North Pembrokeshire ; thus giving us the 
opportunity of rambling, gun in hand, over some of the wildest 
portions of the county, and of observing the birds that frequented 
them, and we must, while thus recording our thanks, pay a tribute 
of gratitude to our old friend, the late Colonel John Owen, of 
Rosebush, through whose kindness we participated in many a 
good Woodcock shoot at beautiful Trecwn, and in the wild covers 
adjoining the Tufton Arms. 
We must not forget to record our indebtedness to Mr. Frederick 
