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small trout. In a long continued drought they suffered severely, 
and numbers would be found lying about dead. In his district, 
Mr. Dix states that they went by the name of the “ Farmers’ 
Crow,” and were terribly destructive, particularly to the young 
lambs of the mountain sheep, and adds: “It is surprising how 
quickly they kill them; stealing upon them when asleep they 
effect their object by first tearing the eye out, and by repeated 
blows through the socket. They generally attack the young and 
weakly lambs.” When we were on Skomer we were informed by 
Mr. Vaughan Davies that the eggs were taken from a Carrion 
Crow’s nest on the island, and were replaced by the eggs of one 
of the farm-yard Pullets, and that in due time these substituted 
eggs were all hatched out by the Crow, and the Chickens then 
taken fromthe nest were all ddack. As there were no black Fowls 
upon the island at the time this was regarded as a prodigy, due 
to the agency of the Crows ! 
HOODED CROW, Corvus cornix.—A winter visitor. Has become 
rare in the county, and in the West of England generally, in 
the last thirty years. At the time Mr. Tracy published his 
notes, nearly fifty years ago, a few used to visit the coast in 
the autumn, but did not stay long. One was shot at Pembroke, 
in December, 1889, and sent to Jeffrys, at Haverfordwest, for 
preservation, and one frequented the cliffs at Tenby, in the 
winter of 1892; these are the only examples we have heard 
of in recent years. 
ROOK, Corvus frugilegus—Resident, and abundant. The county 
appears to suit the requirements of the Rook, as it is numerous 
in all districts, and is evidently increasing in numbers. In the 
severe winter of 1880 thousands perished. ‘Their dead bodies 
were to be seen high up in the trees suspended frozen among the 
branches, and when the deep snow disappeared hundreds were 
discovered to have been buried beneath it, especially in the 
vicinity of small splashets, where the birds had sought in vain for 
food. The Rooks from Sealyham, where there is a vast rookery, 
used to pass over Stone Hall regularly twice every day, in the 
