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numerous species, being in the proportion of at least twenty to 

 one to the Willow Warbler. And (3) among the autumn migrants 

 I have been unable to detect the Siskin, Brambling, Twite, Black 

 Redstart, Fire-crest, Royston Crow, Solitary Snipe, Norfolk 

 Plover, and Green Sandpiper. It is to be noticed that each of 

 these three lists is somewhat a lengthy one. I have no doubt 

 that several of the birds I have here set down as absent from the 

 northern division of the county have been observed as regularly 

 occurring in the southern division, which is of a softer character, 

 and better wooded than our northern " mountain " country. At 

 the beginning of February last Mr. W. Summers, of Heathfield, 

 sent me a Goosander which he had shot upon one of the ponds 

 there. This was shortly after one of the severe gales which were 

 so frequent this last winter, and stress of weather had evidently 

 driven it so far inland. It was a female, and, in spite of being 

 greatly infested by a large parasite, was in good condition. 



Since the foregoing remarks were written, the Editor of the 

 Zoologist has directed my attention to " A list of birds 

 observed in Pembrokeshire," by Mr. Thomas Dix, printed 

 in 'The Zoologist' for 1866, which I had overlooked. On 

 turning to it I find that he paid but a short visit to the 

 S.E. corner of the county not far from Carmarthen, and his list 

 does not include many species (84). Some of his observations 

 are borne out by my own experience, but he has made one or two 

 mistakes. He was able to include some species which are not 

 found in this mountainous region, such as Wood Wren, Wood 

 Lark, and Wryneck — I am rather doubtful about the last. He 

 states that the Garden Warbler is about as numerous as the 

 Blackcap. I think he is in error here. I have never been able 

 to detect the Garden Warbler in the extreme West of England. 

 I never saw it in Devon or Cornwell, and it was extremely rare 

 even in the neighbourhood of Taunton. In a list of the birds in 

 the Tenby Museum, said to have been obtained in the county, 

 this Warbler is mentioned, but on going to look for it, I could 

 not discover it in the collection, and the bird the Curator pointed 

 out to me as the Garden Warbler was undoubtedly a young 

 Willow Wren ! Mr. Dix is wrong in stating that the Black 

 Grouse occurs in Pembrokeshire. It certainlj' does not, and I 

 have never seen any part of the county which looked as if Black 

 Game might occur there. Mr. Dix's words, however, are, " I 



