The Birds of Pembrokeshire. II 
Carmarthenshire, in a boggy place overgrown with alders and 
rushes—since then I have heard the bird near Whitechurch, in 
a similar locality. Last year two males came for a few even- 
ings in July close to this house ; * they were in two small clumps 
of blackthorn about forty yards from each other; they began 
their peculiar whirring note about dark, when I have stood 
within a few feet of them without their being the least dis- 
turbed.” The Grasshopper Warbler has been noted by the 
Rev. C. M. Phelps, near Tenby, and Mr. E. W. H. Blagg has 
informed us that he detected some there in June, 1887. 
HEDGE SPARROW, Accentor modularis——A common resident. In 
a hard winter when we were feeding numerous small birds at 
our dining-room window, a Hedge Sparrow asserted himself as 
king of the company, not allowing any of the Chaffinches, Tits, 
Green Linnets, &c., to touch the food until he had satisfied 
himself. This conduct in a bird usually so unassuming and 
gentle not a little astonished us, and it was also remarkable that 
the other birds submitted to his dominion. Mr. Tracy states: 
“ This species is very subject to warts on the beak and legs ; 
how can this be accounted for?’’ We have never met with one 
thus afflicted. 
WATER OUZEL, or DIPPER, Cinclus aguaticus.—A common 
resident, to be met by every stream. The Dipper is one of the 
few birds that do not migrate, remaining faithful to his familiar 
stream throughout the year. Nor does he appear to be put out 
by the weather, however severe it may be. In one of the 
coldest days of the very hard frost in the winter of 1880 we were 
watching for wild duck by the Cleddy below Stone Hall, with our 
beard and moustache a mass of icicles, when we heard a soft and 
pleasing bird’s song evidently coming near to us, and looking in 
the direction from whence it proceeded were astonished to see 
a Dipper perched on a block of ice that was floating down mid- 
stream singing away as if he were in the height of enjoyment ! 
* Llwynbedw, Kenarth, Llandyssil. 
