40 The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 
and St. Bride’s, there you will be likely to hear of an evening 
the peculiar whirr of the Night-jar, and on the bare ground you 
may find its lovely marbled eggs. NearSt. David’s there lies an 
old encampment, probably Danish, called Penllan. ‘Two years 
in succession a nest was taken here. The eggs lay on the bare 
dry, rough ground, surrounded by withered furze and green 
bracken; but, oh! such beauties they were, like two large 
grapes, only marbled and mottled with stone colour and cream, 
and purplish brown and grey. They are the finest Night-jars’ 
eggs I have ever seen, and are now in Dr. Propert’s collection.” 
One day when we were driving in a lane a Night-jar rose from 
the side of the hedge, and flying in front for a few yards settled 
lengthwise on a rail, and so closely did the colour of its plumage 
match the wood that we had difficulty in distinguishing the bird 
as we passed within a few feet of it. When there are young 
birds, the Night-jars tumble about in front of anyone approaching 
the spot, feigning to be crippled, and attempt to decoy the 
stranger away, as we have often witnessed. 
GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER, Dendrocopus major.—A rare 
occasional visitor. In a county so sparsely timbered as Pem- 
brokeshire the tree frequenting birds would be naturally rare. 
We have never once seen the handsome Pied Woodpecker, but 
have been informed that it has been seen at Picton; also at 
Castle Martin; and Sir Hugh Owen has met with it at Land- 
shipping, and knew of one killed many years ago at Williamston. 
One that had been killed close to the border of the county 
towards Carmarthenshire was brought to Jeffreys, the birdstuffer 
in Haverfordwest, about Easter, 1886. Mr. Jefferys, of Tenby, 
informs us that he has received a fair number of Great Spotted 
Woodpeckers from Carmarthenshire, in which county, with its 
finer timber, Woodpeckers would be naturally more numerous 
than they are in such a bare county as Pembrokeshire. Mr. 
Tracy mentions an example of the Great Spotted Woodpecker 
that was shot at Lawrenny. Both species of the Spotted Wood- 
pecker are fond of fruit, and in our county there is not much in 
the way of fruit to attract them. 
