90 THE OKNITHOLOGIST. 



ROUGH NOTES FROM NORTH WALES. 



By John A. Bucknill, B.A. 



(Continued from p. 80.) 



The country people, however, only distinguish two sorts of Hawks, the 

 " red" and the "blue," the former being the Buzzard, and possibly any other 

 big Hawk, such as the Hen-harrier, which may occasionally visit the moors, 

 and the latter including the two small Hawks above mentioned. 



The Raven (Corvus corax) is still to be found, and nests in one place that 

 I know of on the side of Moel Siabod, but no doubt elsewhere as well. It is 

 on the decrease, as in 1886 there were certainly more than in 1894 and 1895, 

 and indeed, last year I only noticed them on three or four occasions. 



The Carrion Crow (C. corone) is the pest of the place and the chief 

 bete noir of the farmers. It does one good service in^making very short work 

 of the many dead sheep one sees lying about — often, after a flood, in the 

 middle of the beds of the rocky streams, caught up by some ledge of rock. 

 It is, however, a great nuisance both to the sheep farmer and the sportsman 

 from its habit of attacking the lambs and destroying the eggs and young 

 ones of the Grouse. 



The Rook (C. frugilegus) is not, I think, a resident in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Dolwyddelen, but the Jackdaw (C. monedula) is. Rooks, 

 however, are to be seen and probably come from the better-wooded district 

 towards Bettws. 



The Dipper (Cinclus aquaticus). This bird, to a person living in Surrey 

 (where it has only been recorded on one or two occasions), is one of the 

 most interesting features of the scenery. It is quite common and frequents 

 the Lledr and the smaller streams right up to the top of the moor, and I have 

 noticed it on a very small stream, not a yard in width, right up in the 

 mountain. 



The Curlew (iV. arquata) is common and breeds freely on the peaty bogs 

 on both sides of the river, particularly on the "flats," some low-lying 

 marshy, and in some places dangerous, peat bogs, lying below Siabod on the 

 Dolwyddelen side. 



They are wonderfully wary, and one which was shot last year created con- 

 siderable astonishment in the village, most of those who saw it not having 

 ever seen one dead before. 



The Heron (A. cinerea). The upper portion of the Lledr which runs 

 quietly between meadows for some distance, is frequented by one or two of 

 these birds, as also is the Lake Diwaunnedd which is a very lonely piece of 

 water about four miles from Dolwyddelen. 



Occasionally they are seen on other of the smaller lakes which abound in 

 the district. I do not know where they come from as I know of no 



