INTRODUCTION. 
I.—MAartTeERIALs. 
MaTERIALs for compiling a book on the “ Birds of Pembroke- 
shire’ are scanty. The inhabitants of the county, and of the Princi- 
pality in general, are open to the charge, at least in bye-gone years, 
that they were ¢curiost suorum, indifferent to the Fauna by which 
they were surrounded. There are no Welsh ornithologists, so far as 
we are aware, who lived earlier than the present century. It re- 
mained for a stranger like Drayton, in his ‘‘ Polyolbion,” to describe 
the noble race of Falcons that were to be found upon the rocky Pem- 
brokeshire coasts. In an old map of the last century hanging up in 
one of the rooms of the county club in Haverfordwest there are 
some quaint marginal notes descriptive of the local curiosities, and 
among these the salmon leap below Kilgerran Castle, and the 
Falcons to be found on St. David’s Head are specified. In his 
gossiping history of the county Fenton does not wander into the 
fields of Natural History beyond expressing his wonder at the vast 
multitudes of “ Eligoogs ” (common Guillemots) and other sea-fowl to 
be met with in the St. David’s district. Coming to later years, we 
have in the Zoologist for 1850 and 1851, ‘‘A Catalogue of Birds 
taken in Pembrokeshire ; with Observations on their Habits, Man- 
ners, &c., by Mr. James Tracy.” These consist of notes, some 
of them excellent, that were supplied to Lord Emlyn, and by him 
communicated to the Zoologist for 1850 and 1851. Mr. Tracy was 
for many years (c. 1840—1860) a bird-stuffer at Pembroke, whose 
father was one of Lord Cawdor’s keepers at Stackpole. He was 
able to record one or two birds that may be considered classical, 
as they afforded subjects for the beautiful illustrations in Mr. Yarrell’s 
“British Birds.” Such are the young Greenland Falcon, shot on a 
warren of Lord Cawdor’s at Stackpole; the Yellow-billed American 
