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reared their yoiing, and I believe returned the following summer, as 

 another lot of young ones were reared in the same hole in the wall. 

 Last season a pair of great tits took possession, or I think there would 

 have been a third lot, as I noticed a pair of redstarts about the place 

 for several days ; a pair, however, reared their young in the gardens 

 • — they appropriated the hole in a wall, where a pair of pied wagtails 

 had just reared their brood : they began building upon the old nest of 

 the wagtails the very day the latter left it. This species is not at all 

 numerous — I have only seen three birds besides those that bred at 

 Kilwendeage : the men working in the gardens had never seen any 

 before. 



Black Redstart. — Mr. Tracy tells me this may be considered almost 

 a regular visitor, as nearly every year he sees it in Pembroke, gene- 

 rally about the old castle : the first he noticed was in October, 1847, 

 when he shot a female in the street close to his house : this bird is, I 

 believe, in the Stackpole Court collection. The same week he received 

 another bird from Tenby, which was killed on the Coburg Hotel. 



Whinchat. — This bird is decidedly rare in this district: in June, 

 1867, I saw one pair — the only time I have seen the species. 



Wheatear. — I was agreeably surprised to find this bird breeding 

 about the north-eastern portion of the Precelly Mountains: having 

 been told various tales respecting the birds to be found there, I was 

 anxious to see for myself, and, in company with Mr. Phillips, of 

 Newcastle Emlyn, I started for the purpose on the 20th of June last 

 year ; the morning looked far from promising — it was a thick fog, 

 nearly as bad as rain, but we determined on trying : we had about 

 seven miles to drive to our starting point ; by the time we reached it 

 the fog was gone, and the weather was all we could wish. At Carn- 

 Menin we began our walk by crossing a peal bog, upon which large 

 boulders cropped out : here I first saw some wheatears, evidently a 

 family party ; there were also a iew meadow pipits, and just below 

 the rocks which give the name to the place two carrion crows were 

 looking for food. The rock here is very peculiar — it is in large de- 

 tached masses, riven and piled much like a rubbish-heap of a large 

 quarry : many of the blocks are balanced so that they can be easily 

 rocked, and when struck give a ringing sound. In walking to the 

 rocks west of Voeltrigarn — 1 believe called Carn-alw, which, according 

 to Mr. Phillips, means " The Rock of Calling," probably from there 

 being an echo there — we found Lycopodium clavalum common, and 

 about a dozen plants of L. Selago j in the bog in the direction of 



