168 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
this county, for on reference to the ‘ Fauna and Flora of Swansea ’ 
it will be seen that the author was not at all satisfied with the 
evidence submitted to him with respect to its occurrence in 
Glamorganshire. 
That beautiful bird the Golden Oriole frequented Hendrefoilan, 
near Swansea, the seat of Mr. L. L. Dillwyn, M.P., throughout 
the summer of 1885, and I am glad to say was left unmolested. 
Mr. R. Drane, of Queen Street, Cardiff, tells me that this 
species nested at Penarth in 18638. An egg in his possession 
was seen by him on a string, with those of the Thrush and 
Blackbird, in possession of a boy, who described the nest accu- 
rately, and said that he and two others took it, and divided the 
five eggs it contained amongst themselves. 
Another summer visitor, but with no claim to rarity, is the 
Ring Ouzel. It breeds annually in the hilly part of the county 
(where it goes by the name of the Mountain Blackbird), and 
specimens are taken not unfrequently in the ‘‘ Vale of Glamorgan,” 
usually young birds. 
The Redstart, which is common in the adjoining county of 
Monmouth, is decidedly uncommon in Glamorgan, and the 
examples seen are few and far between. 
The Black Redstart has been obtained three times, all three 
examples having been well authenticated. 
In the article on the Nightingale in the fourth edition of 
Yarrell (vol. i., p. 816) there are two misprints. In the eleventh 
line from the top of the page “‘ Perthkerry ” should read ‘“ Porth- 
kerry,’ and in the twelfth line “ Boreter”” should read “ Boteler.” 
The Nightingale, though local, may be heard most years in May, 
in the Llancadle and Castleton coverts. 
On April 4th I obtained a male Cirl Bunting, Emberiza cirlus, 
at this place (the Ham, near Cowbridge). Mr. Howard Saunders, 
in his ‘ Illustrated Manual of British Birds’ (p. 203), states that 
this species, he believes, was ‘‘ unknown in Wales until Mr. KE. C. 
Phillips obtained a male on 15th March, 1888, near Brecon.” 
But I can record two previous occurrences of this species in 
Glamorganshire, one so far back as 1876. Itis apparently seldom 
seen in these parts, being but locally distributed. 
I can record one undoubted occurrence of the Tree Sparrow, 
Passer montanus, for a male was obtained by Mr. Cording, tax- 
idermist, of Cardiff, at Waterstone, in 1882. 
