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of the Choughs that had been brought up by some children 
who lived about two miles from the village. Whenever they 
left home to go to school the bird would precede them, and 
arrive there a few minutes after they had started, and some 
twenty minutes before them. This it did so regularly that the 
master knew when the children might be expected.” Mr. 
Charles Jefferys, of Tenby, informs us that he believes the 
Chough still breeds at the back of Caldy, ze, on the channel 
side of the island. They certainly did some four or five years 
ago, and in the spring of 1893 he saw a pair flying about the 
adjacent island of St. Margaret’s that had come from the direc- 
tion of Caldy.' During the ten years he has resided in Tenby 
he has never known any eggs of the Chough, or young, to be 
taken in the immediate neighbourhood, and, as far as he is 
aware, no birds have been killed on Caldy ; still, they each year 
become rarer. Six or seven years ago he used to see them pretty 
often about the cliffs between Tenby and Lydstep, but very 
rarely sees one now. A friend of ours who was paying a 
summer visit to Tenby recently tells us that he shot a Chough 
on the beach there that was flying at a considerable distance 
from him in the midst of a flock of Jackdaws. Apart from the 
persecution they meet with, the Choughs appear to be dying out 
in Pembrokeshire just as they are in Cornwall and Devonshire, 
where in former years they were equally numerous. When he 
was staying at Tenby in June, 1887, Mr. E. W. H. Blagg tells 
us that he saw several old Choughs on the coast by Giltar. 
JAY, Garrulus glandarius.—Resident ; not common. Ina county 
with so few woods as Pembrokeshire this bird of the coppice 
would naturally be somewhat scarce, and in the woods where he 
occurs he is, unfortunately, the object of constant persecution 
at the hand of keepers. We had plenty of Jays around us at 
Stone Hall, and derived constant amusement from their clever 
"In the Report of the Migration of Birds, as observed at Lighthouses, for 1881, 
Mr. Ebben writes from Caldy Lighthouse: ‘* The Chough breeds upon the island, 
and never goes away.” 
