lii. The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 
Since the commencement of the century we have lost three species 
that formerly nested in the county ; viz., the Marsh Harrier, the Kite, 
and the Black Guillemot. 
The number of our breeding birds, 113, may be compared with 
those that have been ascertained to nest in the district surrounding 
Aberystwyth, in the neighbouring county of Cardigan. These are 
stated to be 94, comprising 68 resident species, and 26 summer 
migrants. This list, however, is considered to be incomplete, and 
additional nesting birds may yet be detected. 
We can only regret that materials are not at hand to enable us to 
present a brief sketch of the Ornis of South Wales in general, as we 
feel persuaded it is far from being so scanty as anyone who examines 
our account of the Birds of Pembrokeshire, its extreme western 
county, might suppose it to be. The Great Western Railway runs 
along the coast in many places as it traverses South Wales, and the 
traveller who looks out from the carriage windows of the train will 
see many a stretch of sand and ooze that look as if they were 
acceptable to the class of waders. We have seen the mouth of the 
Carmarthen river, at Ferryside, and some of the oozes we have 
mentioned occasionally covered with birds, as we have journeyed to 
and fro ; and have often thought that the fine counties of Carmarthen 
and Glamorgan, especially the latter, with its beautiful peninsula of 
Gower, its extended coast, numerous bays, and muddy inlets, would 
yield an interesting and much fuller list of birds. We can but pray— 
exoriare aliguts/ who will take the work in hand to record in either 
of these counties some particulars of their Fauna. 
In our account of the Birds of Pembrokeshire we have given no 
description of the various birds, nor have we entered into the subject 
of classification ; as these matters are fully treated of in the standard 
works on British Birds. We have followed the arrangement of the 
Ibis List ; and to anyone who may be tempted by our book to seek 
for more information respecting the birds mentioned in it we can 
heartily commend Mr. Howard Saunders’ very useful ‘ Manual of 
British Birds.” 
