6 The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 
appearance at, and enter, the bedroom windows. After several 
months of this familiarity, which was altogether uninvited, he 
suddenly disappeared, having fallen a victim, we feared, to some 
cat or hawk. One summer a Thrush feeding on our lawn was 
watched by a Robin that flew down and seized a worm from it 
directly it caught one. This would be done again and again 
until the Robin’s appetite was satisfied. The Thrush made no 
resistance, seeming to take the theft as a matter of course, and 
suffered itself to be treated in this manner day after day. We 
fancied it had in some way been hypnotized by the Robin. 
Every year among the Robins’ nests that we detected in our 
grounds at Stone Hall there would be one containing pure white 
eggs, by no means a common variety. 
WHITETHROAT, Sylvia cinerea —A common summer visitor. 
Next to the Chiffchaff and the Spotted Flycatcher, the common 
Whitethroat is the most abundant of the small summer visitors, 
being generally dispersed and numerous throughout the county. 
LESSER WHITETHROAT, Sylvia curruca.—This species is not 
included in their lists either by Mr. Dix or by Mr. Tracy. It 
does not appear to visit the adjoining county of Cardiganshire, 
which is far richer in the smaller summer birds than Pembroke- 
shire. We have, ourselves, never met with it, and it is a little 
bird that cannot easily escape detection. We have seen no 
specimens of it in any collection of stuffed birds in the county. 
We only admit it doubtfully on account of information supplied 
us by Mr. Mathias, of Haverfordwest, who tells us that when he 
was a boy of 14 or 15 he found a nest of this species at 
Lamphey, being at that time well acquainted with both the 
Common and Lesser Whitethroats through having taken the 
nests of both of them on many occasions in Gloucestershire. 
He adds that in the summer of 1882, a pair of these little 
birds frequented Hayguard Hay bottom in the parish of Dale, 
where he watched them closely on several days hoping to find 
the nest, ‘but they were too much for me, nettles and thorns 
