XIV. The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 
Cuckoo, also from Stackpole, both illustrated in Mr. Yarrell’s well- 
known work ; and the Red-Crested Pochard ; all three were presented 
by Lord Cawdor to the Zoological Society of London, and may still 
be seen in the Gallery of British Birds, at the Natural History 
Museum at South Kensington. Unfortunately, Mr. Tracy’s notes are 
incomplete, and do not extend beyond the Sandpipers and Plovers.’ 
In the Zoologist for 1866 and 1869 are contained the valuable notes on 
the birds observed by Mr. Thomas Dix in the north-eastern corner of 
the county, on the Cardiganshire borders, which serve to illustrate 
the influence exercised by the Precelly Mountains on the dis- 
tribution of birds in Pembrokeshire. Mr. Thomas Dix was born 
in 1830, at Dicklebury, near Harleston, in Norfolk, and was a 
friend of such well-known naturalists as Mr. Henry Doubleday, of 
Epping, of Mr. Edward Newman, the founder and editor for many 
years until his death, of the Zoo/ogist, and was also a friend and 
correspondent of Mr. H. Stevenson, of Norwich, the author of the 
“ Birds of Norfolk.” He was himself an accomplished and observant 
naturalist, and an excellent taxidermist. He was appointed agent to 
the Kilwendeage estate, in North Pembrokeshire, and this brought 
him into the county, and enabled him to interest himself in its 
natural history. His notes are full of value, and evince close and 
accurate observation. His death, at the early age of 42, can only be 
considered as a serious loss to the naturalists of the county. There 
isa memoir of him in the Zoologist for 1873, from the pen cf his 
friend, Mr. H. Stevenson, of Norwich. We knowof only one other 
published account of Pembrokeshire birds, and this is a most able 
paper on the rarer birds of the county, from the pen of our friend, 
the Rev. C. M. Phelps, Vicar of St. Martin’s, Haverfordwest. Mr. 
Phelps was, for many years, Curate of Tenby, and while he was 
residing at that beautiful watering-place, wrote a paper for one of 
the meetings of the Pembrokeshire Field Naturalists’ Club, which he 
subsequently allowed to be printed in the seventh edition of Mason’s 
“Guide to Tenby,” an excellent and most useful volume, full of 
information. Mr. Phelps is an enthusiastic oologist ; and his expe- 
‘ But he supplied much information subsequently to Mr. Dix, respecting the 
omitted Gulls and Divers. 
