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This may possibly assist him to find some of them in the southern 

 and more wooded part of that county. The Long-eared Owl, Tree 

 Sparrow, Hawfinch (rare). Wood Lark, Nuthatch, Green, Greater, and 

 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, all occur with us ; also occasionally the Stock 

 Dove, which is common in Herefordshire. I have also seen the Ring 

 Ouzel, Pied Flycatcher (fairly common). Nightingale, Wood Wren, Garden 

 Warbler (once), Reed Warbler, Redstart, the Pied, Grey, and Yellow 

 Wagtail (common), Turtle Dove, and Wryneck. Regarding this last bird 

 some little doubt has been expressed with respect to its occurrence here by 

 English ornitiiologists. I have no doubt of it; it has been caught in pole- 

 traps set for hawks in Radnorshire. I myself heard it close to Brecon this 

 year, and have seen its eggs taken from a nest near here this year. It is 

 certainly not common, but, from its excessively shy habits, is often unper- 

 ceived. Tiie note of this bird, however, when once heard is not easily 

 forgotten. Among the autumn migrants Mr. Mathew has been unable to 

 detect, we have the Siskin (very common last winter), Brambling (one 

 specimen only recorded), Twite, Black Redstart (one specimen), Firecrest, 

 Royston Crow (one specimen). Solitary Snipe, and Green Woodpecker. I 

 have never heard of the Thick-knee or Norfolk Plover in South Wales. 

 With regard to Mr. Dix's list of birds observed in Pembrokeshire, I have 

 no doubt but that he is right as to the Wryneck. Its name in Welsh, 

 " Gwas-y-Gog," the servant of the Cuckoo (or, as it is called here in 

 English, the " cuckoo's maiden"), points it out as well known in Wales. 1 

 think the Garden Warbler is very rare here. The Black Grouse, if extinct 

 now, must have been an indigenous bird in all South Wales, and the many 

 blackcock runs one sees there everywhere attest its presence. It is 

 increasing in Breconshire, Riidnorshire, and especially in the northern part 

 of Carmarthenshire, where it is now plentiful ; it is probable therefore that 

 with a little preservation it may spread into Pembrokeshire. ]\lay I ask 

 whv Mr. Mathew docs not publish a complete list of the birds of Pcmbroke- 

 shire? It would be most acceptable to ornithologists, and with such an 

 extensive sea-coast as tlie county possesses, the list of sea birds should be 

 very complete. I hope by the time it appears he may be able to include 

 the Black Grouse among its game-birds.— E. Cambridge Phili.H's (Brecon, 

 S. Wales). 



Greenland Falcon in Skye.— On the 3rd January last a female Green- 

 land Falcon, in immature plumage, was shot at Ardinore, Skye, by my 

 friend Capt. Macdonald, who recalls a similar visit from a Greenland Falcon 

 tliirtv years previously. It had haunted the neighbourhood for some days, 

 and was sent in the flesh to IMacIeay, of Inverness, who has mounted it 

 well in a case with a Peregrine, but omitted to take any measurements. I 

 examined the bird last June, but a detailed description is unnecessary. — 

 H. A. Macpheuson (Carlisle;; 



