The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 3 
Clever fox! Blackbirds are among the most restless of birds, 
and seem to be always on the move, as we learn from the 
reports of the movements of birds received from the lighthouses 
round the coast. There is hardly a day in the year when some 
do not strike against the lights. Many of these birds may be 
only making short local journeys, and taking their flight across 
the water from point to point. 
RING OUZEL, Zurdus forquatus.—A summer visitor. A few some- 
times remain in this country for the winter. The station of the 
Ring Ouzel is to be sought for on the moors and hills. When 
we have been fishing in the summer months in the small 
streams which run down from the bogs on the Precelly Moun- 
tains, we have frequently encountered pairs of Ring Ouzels, 
whose angry chatterings and impatience of our intrusion 
plainly revealed that we were near their nests. Mr. Dix writes : 
“Although I have not seen this bird, I have every reason to 
believe it breeds (occasionally at least) in this district. My 
young friend, Arthur Phillips, of Newcastle Emlyn, took some 
eggs in 1867, when he distinctly saw the bird leave the nest.” 
WHEATEAR, Saxicola enanthe.—A summer visitor. Common all 
round the coast, and very numerous on the Precelly Hills. On 
their arrival in the spring we used to see Wheatears for a few 
days about our fields at Stone Hall, but they soon moved on 
towards the hills. Mr. Dix writes: “I was agreeably surprised 
to find this bird breeding about the north-eastern portion of the 
Precelly Mountains.” Indeed, in our experience, the Wheatear 
is the most numerous of all the small birds to be found on those 
lofty hills during the summer months, 
WHINCHAT, Pratincola rubetya.—A summer visitor. Although 
Mr. Dix wrote that the Whinchat was decidedly rare in his 
district, which was the north-eastern corner of the county 
immediately adjoining Cardiganshire, we have found that it is 
