NOTES AND QUERIES. 889 
requented parts of what may be termed the “ Highlands of South Wales.” 
On June 4th last, a party of four, we left Brecon, on a trip to the Brecon- 
shire Van Mountain, which lies some seventeen miles in a westerly direction 
from this town. The route follows the well-wooded valley of the Usk, 
almost to its source, and the day being brilliantly fine, the summer song- 
birds were heard to advantage, and we identified among others the notes of 
the Blackcap, Garden Warbler, Wood Wren, and Tree Pipit, the last 
named being common. At an altitude of eleven hundred feet, the ascent of 
the mountain began, and from that point, where the woodland birds were 
replaced by those of the moor, we took note of every species seen up to a 
height of nearly two thousand feet, where we reached a small lake on the 
mountain side. At this elevation the only bird seen was the Meadow 
Pipit, though the Dipper, Sky Lark, and Carrion Crow occurred nearly as 
high, and a little lower the note of the Raven was heard, and soon after 
a pair of these birds were seen. I was directed by a shepherd to a rocky 
glen where a pair of Ravens nested yearly; although not more than thirty 
feet from the ground, the nest was, as the man described it, ‘in a very 
awkward place to climb to.’ The young had, of course, already left the 
nest, which was snugly placed on a ledge of rocks, and was built of ivy- 
sticks. I also saw on the mountain-side a small hawk, which I believe was 
a Merlin, the Red Grouse, Snipe, Ring Ouzel, Wheatear, Curlew, and, on 
a rocky stream, the Grey Wagtail, and several Common Sandpipers, which 
apparently had nests near at hand. The Sandpiper, although common in 
April on the lower portions of the Usk, seems for the most part to move 
up to the moorland streams to nest. The Yellow Bunting, Wren, Linnet, 
Stonechat, and Pied Wagtail complete the list of birds observed in this 
upland district.—E. A. Swarnson (Brecon). 
Colourless Eggs of the Twite.—My attention was called last June 
to a clutch of six eggs of the Twite, Linota montium, of a pure white 
colour and perfectly fresh. On blowing them, I found the shells firm, and 
they all contained what I suppose should be the proper proportion of yelk 
and white. That afternoon we found several nests of this species containing 
seven eggs, while clutches of six were common.—C. KE. Srorr (Lostock, 
Bolton-le-Moors). 
Garganey and other Birds in Warwickshire. —I have recently 
received strong presumptive evidence of the Garganey breeding in War- 
wickshire this summer in the shape of—I am sorry to say—a freshly- 
skinned drake, which had been shot on one of the canal reservoirs in the 
south of the county. It was observed on the 21st June, while flying round 
at a low elevation over a thick bed of rushes, close to the edge of which it 
presently alighted, and was immediately shot. It came into my hands a 
few days later. Early the next morning another bird, supposed to be the 
