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scratched for hours. I have never seen them more than a mile or so 

 from the sea-coast : they keep in families during the autumn and 

 winter, until the pairing season. 



Raven. Tolerably common round the sea- coast, where they breed : 

 they also breed on some of the old castle-walls, and on Treffgarn 

 rocks, in the upper part of this county : they are early breeders. I 

 have a note of seeing their eggs in a nest, on the 14th of February, 

 184*2, and of taking six from a nest on the 4th of April, the same year. 



Carrion Crow. Common. These birds breed in trees, and in the 

 cliffs round our sea-coast. 



Hooded Crow. A few of these birds arrive here in the autumn, but 

 do not remain long. 



The Rook. Common. Mr. Yarrell gives a vignette of an accidental 

 malformation in the beak of a rook, where the under mandible is elon- 

 gated and curved upwards. One killed by Major Bowling, at Wood- 

 field, near Pembroke, and presented to Viscount Emlyn, in whose 

 collection it now is, has the upper mandible elongated and curved 

 downward, a full inch and a quarter longer than the under one. 



Jackdaw. Common. 



Magpie. Common. 



Jay. Common in the upper or more inland and wooded part of the 

 county. 



Green Woodpecker. Tolerably common. 



Great Spotted Woodpecker. Very scarce. A specimen taken at 

 Lawrenny, is now in the collection of R. J. Auckland, Esq., of Boul- 

 ston, near Haverfordwest. 



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Equally scarce as the last. 



The Common Creeper. Common. 



Wren. Common. 



Hoopoe. Rare, although during a period of twenty years, I think 

 seven have been taken in different parts of the county. A fine speci- 

 men was shot near St. David's, on the 30th of March last, and is now 

 in the collection of II. Matthias, at Haverfordwest. 



The Nuthatch. Tolerably common. 



Common Cuckoo. Common. I have never found the egg of this 

 bird in any nest but those of the meadow or tree pipits. 



Yellow-billed American Cuckoo. The specimen from which Mr. 

 Yarrell figured his bird was killed by my brother, near Stackpole 

 Court. I first noticed it on the top of an ash-tree, in the act of feed- 

 ing on some small insects on the wing, very similar to the golden- 



