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this wanderer from southern seas near Borth about five years 

 since was recorded in ' The Zoologist' (1890, p, 454). 



Cape Pigeon, Daption capensis. I recognised an example of 

 this bird in the collection at Gogerddan, and was informed by Sir 

 Pryse Pryse that it was shot by one of his sons in 1879 on the 

 Dovey. Mr. Mathew, who records an example at Bournemouth 

 (Zool. 1894, p. 396), tells me that this makes the third instance 

 of the occurrence of this Petrel upon the British coast. 



Fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis. Mr. Hutchings believes that he 

 has had five or six examples. One of these, which I have seen, 

 was shot off the castle at the beginning of January, 1892. 



Manx Shearwater, Piiffinus anglorum. Common in the 

 Channel, but seldom seen inshore unless washed up after rough 

 weather. On May 15th, and again on June 17th, 1893, both 

 still and sultry nights, I heard its unmistakable note from the 

 terrace at Aberystwyth. The birds were evidently hawking to 

 and fro very near inshore. 



Anseres. 



Greylag Goose, Anser cinereus. Of rare occurrence at the 

 present day. At the end of December, 1892, a frost, which 

 lasted for about three weeks, caused a most unusual visitation of 

 Wild Geese to the Dovey. Capt. G. W. Cosens received a Grey- 

 lag, one of three shot from a flock of nine by General White's 

 gamekeeper close to Glandovey. Mr. Pryse, of Lodge Park, 

 obtained one about the same time, probably a member of the 

 same party. 



Bean Goose, A. segetum. Shot by Mr. Pryse early in January, 

 1893, during the spell of cold weather just alluded to. 



Pink-footed Goose, A. brachyrhynchus. Six are said to have 

 been shot by Mr. Pryse at the same time as the last. One of 

 them is preserved at Lodge Park in a case with a White-fronted 

 Goose, the latter being another memento of the same frost. I 

 have made careful enquiry into this occurrence, as the present 

 species seems to be a rare straggler to the western coast. 



White-fronted Goose, A. albifrons. A small flock of about 

 thirty visits the Teifi Bog every winter. In 1892 they stayed till 

 the beginning of May. One or two are generally shot, and in 

 1892-93 five were thus obtained. Capt. G. W. Cosens has a 

 specimen from this bog. Col. Fielden obtained one on the 

 Dovey, Dec. 2 1st, 1890, There is another from the same locality 



