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one at Williamston. In more recent times we have notes of 
one shot at Solva, in the autumn of 1886, and of another at 
Broadmoor, Littlehaven, April 16, 1888. 
CUCKOO, Cuculus canorus.—A common summer visitor. The 
Cuckoo appears to delight in the mountain parts of the county. 
We used to look out for its first appearance at Stone Hall, in 
the last week of April, and the zoth of that month is the earliest 
date on which we first welcomed its familiar cry. We heard a 
Cuckoo one year calling as late as at the end of the first week in 
July ; it is unusual to hear the voice of the Cuckoo after mid- 
summer. By the banks of the Cleddy Cuckoos were specially 
numerous. While we have been fishing we have heard six or 
seven calling at once, and the birds were constantly flying back- 
wards and forwards about the stream. Mr. Tracy observes that 
he never found a Cuckoo’s egg, except in the nests of the 
Meadow Pipit and the Tree Pipit, but the birds avail themselves, 
doubtless, of a larger selection than this of small birds to take 
charge of their introduced young. Mr. Mortimer Propert met 
with its egg in the nests of the Meadow Pipit, Sky-lark, Hedge- 
sparrow, and Robin. The nest of the common Pied Wagtail is 
very often chosen, 
THE AMERICAN YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, Coccyzus ameri- 
canus.—A very rare waif from America. Only one in the 
county, and this is the specimen that is in the Gallery of British 
Birds at the South Kensington Natural History Museum, 
labelled “ The Carolina Cuckoo,” having been presented by 
Lord Cawdor, on whose estate at Stackpole it was obtained in 
1832 or 1833. Mr. Tracy gives the following particulars of its 
capture in the Zoologist for 1850: ‘* The specimen from which 
Mr, Yarrell figured his bird was killed by my brother near 
Stackpole Court. I first noticed it on the top of an ash tree in 
the act of feeding on some small insects on the wing very 
similar to the Golden-crests. Seeing it appeared a nonde- 
script, it was shot immediately, and nothing more observed 
as to its habits.” This species of Cuckoo rears its own young, 
a brood of six or eight in number. 
