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to believe there was a second brood, for in July four more young 
ones appeared, and they are now generally in the same locality 
with the old birds. They are now in small flocks of eight or 
ten apparently family parties. During the severe weather last 
February a flock of five came into the yard, feeding by the 
stable-doors and in the cattle yards; they were very tame, often 
allowing me to get within four or five yards of them. I have 
heard this bird singing every month throughout the year.” The 
local birdcatchers used to obtain 36s. a dozen for fresh caught 
Woodlarks, hens and cocks taken together, so it is no wonder 
that they sought after them persistently, and have nearly 
obliterated this sweet songster from our county list. 
SWIFT, Cyfse/us apus——A summer visitor ; local; numerous in 
places. To be seen about the old castles, such as Kilgerran and 
Pembroke, about the cathedral at St. David’s, &c., &c. Also 
evidently nesting in places in the cliffs on the coasts, in crags 
inland, in old cottage and farm-house roofs and chimneys, &c., 
&c. We always had plenty of Swifts about us at Stone Hall, 
and imagined that many bred in some rocks by the banks of the 
Cleddy. They generally arrived with us on 4th May, and left 
us again in the first week of August, but we have seen oneas late 
as 30th September. 
NIGHTJAR, Caprimulgus europeus.—A summer visitor ; common. 
The “mountain” country, especially where furze and bracken 
abound, is much affected by this singular looking bird, and in 
such places we have often flushed it in the day-time from its 
perch on an old furze stump, or from the ground where it has 
been sheltering beneath a furze bush. It is not uncommon in 
September in turnip fields, where we have met with it when after 
the partridges. On summer evenings we generally noticed one 
or two wheeling about our grounds. To quote our friend, the 
Rey. C. M. Phelps, ‘ all over Pembrokeshire, wherever there is 
waste or fern-covered land—whether it be on the boulder-strewn 
mountain-side of the north, or on the heath-clad rocks near St. 
David’s, and in the treeless wind-swept districts of Castle Maitin 
