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bii'd never goes direct to the nest, but approaches it by a series 

 of short, irregular flights, finallj' dropping into the herbage 

 and running to the nest unseen." Mr. R. W. Jones has noticed 

 that at Llandudno local birds are reinforced in the spring. 

 Several observers have met with the Stonechat on Bardsey in 

 summer and autumn. 



10. — REDSTART. Phoenicurus ithcenicunis phcenicurus (L.). 



Summer migrant, somewhat local but common in most wooded districts ; 

 rare in Anglesey and not recorded in Lleyn, 



Additional Anglesey record : — a male north of Menai Bridge, 

 10th May, 1911 (H. King). 



11. — BLACK REDSTART. Phomicurns ochrurus gibraltariensis 



(Gm.). 



Regular visitor to the coast in small numbers. 



Several additional occurrences have been recorded, and it seems 

 probable that this species regularly passes through North 

 Wales on migration in very small numbers, though it appears 

 to keep always to the coast. On the Great Orme's Head Mr. 

 R. W. Jones observed a female, 27th December, 1910 ; another, 

 23rd November, 1911 ; a male, 1st March, 1912 ; an immature 

 male, 2nd November, 1912, and two. 7th February, 1914. Messrs. 

 Coward and Oldham noted a male at Holyhead on loth and 

 18th October, 1912, and a female near the South Stack, 22nd 

 October, 1912. In the B.O.C. Migration Report, one is 

 recorded in the Conway Estuary, 24th March, 1913, and 

 one at the Skerries, 13-14th October, 1912. In the Zoologist, 

 1914, p. 148, are records of one at Llandudno, 10th January, 

 and another at Valley on the 14th. Mx. F. C. Rawlings sent 

 me for identification the skin of a female which he shot at 

 Barmouth, 13th December, 1915. Just beyond our district 

 Mr. Frank S. Wright caught a female at the botanical labora- 

 tory, University College, Aberystwyth, 19th November, 1916, 

 while Professor Salter tells me that he knows of one or two 

 other occurrences there besides those recorded in the Vert. 

 Fauna N. Wales. 



12. — REDBREAST. Erithacus rubecula melophilus Hart. 



Plentiful everywhere except on very elevated land. 



A white Robin haunted certain gardens in Newtown (Mont.) 

 for several months in 1909. 



