ie) The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 
were also disappointed in not detecting our charming songster 
the following spring, although there were many, besides our- 
selves, keeping a watch for his appearance. 
SEDGE WARBLER, 4crocephalus phragmitis.—A common summer 
visitor. Next to the Chiff-chaff, perhaps, the most numerous of 
the soft-billed summer visitors in Pembrokeshire. When we 
were fishing in the Cleddy below our house in the spring and 
summer, we were always provided with entertainment by the 
Sedge Warblers that were very abundant in the tangled cover by 
the side of the stream through which we had to force our way. 
Their restless plunging into the bushes and out again, sometimes 
scolding at us, sometimes trilling a few notes of their babbling 
song, was most amusing. And every now and then we would 
start one from its nest. After this experience of the abundance 
of the bird in our locality it is curious to read that Mr. Tracy 
considered it scarce, and that Mr. Dix had only heard it in one 
place, “in some willow bushes near Cardigan.” We do not 
consider that this is any proof of any inequality in the bird’s 
distribution, but only that it points to these two excellent 
observers and naturalists not having had at hand the country 
that the Sedge Warbler alone frequents ; swampy, bushy places, 
and the banks of brooks that are fringed with thick growth 
of brambles, furze, and other suitable cover for the bird to nest 
and harbour in. 
GRASSHOPPER WARBLER, Zocustella nevia—A summer 
visitor, scarce and very local. We never detected the singular 
and not-to-be-mistaken song of this species at Stone Hall. The 
Rey. Clennell Wilkinson pointed out to us a field near his 
rectory at Castle Martin in a corner of which he had found a 
Grasshopper Warbler’s nest several summers in succession, an 
instance of the attachment of the bird to a certain locality. Sir 
Hugh Owen has informed us that he has seen this species at 
Goodwick. Mr. Dix writes: “the first time I heard this bird in 
Wales was one afternoon in July, 1866—it was just within 
