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the approach of evening. Herons, frequently to be 

 seen feeding on the Beaumaris flats, but less often 

 encountered toward the north, lingered until dark, 

 suggesting that their breeding haunt lay southwards, 

 and at no great distance. Curlews and Redshanks, 

 saving a few of the latter we found breeding in a 

 walled enclosure towards Penmon, were less easily to 

 be traced to their nesting sites by such observations ; 

 and of the whereabouts of the Lesser Terns, some- 

 times to be seen upon the coarse shingle also at 

 Penmon, we knew no more than that it was not 

 northwards, so far as we had ranged. 



All this constituted an invitation southwards, and 

 so, in the last week in June, 1905, having impressed 

 the services of the bicycle in aid of our pursuit, we 

 set off from Beaumaris a company of three with 

 the extreme southern end of the Menai Straits as 

 objective. 



We were advancing along the Menai Road, cut 

 along the flank of a wooded slope, so that we had 

 woods above us on the right, whilst woods below us 

 on the left continued down to the waters of the 

 Straits, we were advancing by this road, and had 

 barely cleared Beaumaris town, when we had to 

 dismount. For first one, and then another, and yet 

 another Mole appeared, all nosing their way along the 

 foot of the rock that here walls in the road, having 

 evidently toppled over the small escarpment from 

 the woods above. 



We had for a long time previously been without 

 rain, and during the drought worms, the chief sup- 

 port of this animal, must have gone deeper and 

 deeper into the earth, followed, as is their practice, 



