22 FAUNA OF NORTH WALES 



13. — NIGHTINGALE. Lmcinia megarhyncka megarhyncha 



Brehm. 



Summer migrant ; rare. Occurs irregularly on the English border ; not 

 authenticated elsewhere. 



14. — WHITETHROAT. Sylvia communis communis Lath. 

 Summer migrant ; common and generally distributed. 



15.— LESSER WHITETHROAT. Sylvia curruca curruca (L.). 



Summer migrant ; fairly common in the eastern, but rare in the 

 western half of the district. 



The following are additional records : In Anglesey one was 

 seen in Red Wharf Bay, 17th May, 1914, by Mr. R. W. Jones ; 

 a pair with young out of the uest near Holland Arras in June, 

 1915, and one singing near Ceint Station, 21st June, 1916, 

 noted by Mr. C. Oldham ; several in Red Wharf Bay 

 observed by Mi". S. G. Curomings in 1917 and 1918 ; he also 

 noted two pairs at Wern in 1917. In Carnarvonshire Mr. 

 T. A. Coward heard live in one day in May, 1910, near Llan- 

 dudno, while the same year Mr. T. Owen found a nest and eggs 

 near Bangor. In 1917 ]\Ir. R. W. Jones heard one repeatedly 

 at Bangor during June and July. In Flintshire Thomas 

 Mather \vrote in the Liverpool Naturalists' Journal, 1866-7, 

 that it " had been more common during the last four or five 

 years than ii\ the previous ten." There is no doubt that here, 

 as in Shropshire, the numbers vary from year to year. Mr. 

 D. Witty found a nest and eggs at Mochdre, 20th May, 1909. 

 ]VIr. S. G. Cummings heard one singing at Dolgelley, 20th May, 

 1912. Its arrival in Merioneth was recorded in the B.O.C. 

 Migration Report as early as 14th April, 1913. Mr. H. F. 

 Witherby noted tAvo at Aberdovey in 1915. 



16. — BLACKCAP. Sylvia atricapilla atricapilla (L.). 



Summer migrant, common except in Lleyn, Anglesey, and Llandudno. 



In Lleyn Mr. Ellis Davies, gardener at Nanhoron. says that 

 the Blackcap is common in the grounds there. Mi'. A. G. 

 Edwards reports that for fully a week during the first half of 

 January. 1906, a female came and fed in his garden at Portmadoc 

 on food put out for the Tits, etc. She was very pugnacious 

 and di'ove other birds from the food. One struck the lantern 

 at Bardsey lighthouse, 10-1 1th October, 1912. 



