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their operations are conducted with perfect friendliness and 
amiability. One hard winter, when day after day we fed 
numerous starving birds at our dining-room window, we had 
among them a little flock of about a dozen Starlings, and we 
never observed any pushing or crowding or contention among 
them. However hungry they might be, each bird seemed to 
give way to the other, and we thought their conduct was a per- 
fect pattern of gentlemanly behaviour, and the good opinion we 
had always held of the Starlings was greatly confirmed. 
ROSE-COLOURED PASTOR, fastor voseus.—A rare occasional 
visitor inthe spring and autumn. In the Tenby Guide the Rev. 
C. M. Phelps states that the Rose Pastor has been seen in Pem- 
brokeshire without specifying either locality or date, but we 
believe it was in the neighhourhood of St. Florence. The Rev. 
Clennell Wilkinson has informed us that he is pretty certain that 
he has seen a Rose Pastor at Castle Martin. 
CHOUGH, Pyrrhocorax graculus—Resident. There can be no doubt 
that 50 years ago the Chough was a common bird on the coast 
allthe way round from Tenby to St. David’s Head, and on towards 
Cardiganshire about Dinas, &c, It is now rapidly becoming 
scarce, and if it were not for its sagacity in building in holes and 
crannies of inaccessible cliffs, it would long ago have been ex- 
terminated, as all its eggs would have been taken to meet the 
demands of collectors. In describing his birds-nesting expe- 
riences, our friend the Rev. C. M. Phelps well says: “If the 
Raven’s nest be difficult to get at, much more is that of the 
Chough. Like the Raven he chooses the highest cliffs ; but he 
does more. He finds out all the deepest holes, and there he 
places his nest out of sight and out of reach. And should there 
be a dark chasm or cauldron anywhere in the neighbourhood, in 
the darkest depths of that chasm the nest and eggs will be 
securely hidden. In one instance, at St. David’s, the nest was 
built in the roof of a cave. At low tide only could the cave be 
approached, and then, to get into it a brother oologist had to strip 
and swim across a deep, cold pool, only to find the nest far 
