The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 19 
visitations ; but the species is not included in any lists we have 
received, nor do we know of a specimen in any collection. 
Mr. Dix mentions one that was obtained just over our borders 
in Carmarthenshire: “I am informed by my friend, Mr. J. 
Phillips, of Newcastle-Emlyn, that a single bird of this species 
was shot a few years since near Llandyssil, in Carmarthen- 
shire.” 
SPOTTED FLYCATCHER, Muscicapa grisola—A common sum- 
mer visitor. This little bird was very numerous around us at 
Stone Hall, where one summer we detected six or seven of its 
nests close to our house. 
PIED FLYCATCHER, Muscicapa atricapilla—A rare summer 
visitor, only occasionally noticed. We have never met with it 
in the county. Of late years the Pied Flycatcher has been 
ascertained to be far from an uncommon bird in many districts 
in northern and central Wales, generally frequenting woods at 
some elevation above the sea-level on mountain sides, where it 
nests in holes in oak trees. But we have no record of its nest 
ever having been obtained in Pembrokeshire, where it appears to 
be only a rare passing visitor. There are specimens in Lord 
Cawdor’s collection at Stackpole Court that were obtained in 
the neighbourhood, and Mr. Dix was informed by Mr. Tracy 
that the bird was occasionally seen in spring andautumn. It Is 
not included in the lists of county birds supplied us by Mr. H. 
Mathias and Sir Hugh Owen. 
SWALLOW, Airundo rustica—A common summer visitor. We 
used to greet the Swallows on roth April, as an average date, at 
Stone Hall, where they were always numerous, and nested in all 
our outbuildings, bringing off two broods of young in the course 
of the summer. When the May Fly was “up” on the Cleddy 
below our house it was a grand time for the Avrundines. In 
company with numerous Sparrows and Chaffinches they gathered 
to the feast, and most eagerly pursued the chase of the dancing 
