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of the island. The other species we noticed — Starling, Wheatear, 

 Sky-Lark, and Meadow-Pipit — were all abundant on the adjacent 

 mainland. 



Away from the coast, on the gorse-covered commons, and 

 where the outcrops of metamorphic rock defy the efforts and 

 primitive methods of the Anglesea agriculturist, the Linnet and 

 Stonechat were dominant birds. On Mynydd Llwydiarth, a 

 rough hilly country overlooking Redwharf Bay, we noticed one 

 or two pairs of Whinchats, a species which we only saw in one 

 other locality. Snipe were drumming on these hills, and we met 

 with others near Llangoed. The Nightjar, which was also here, 

 appears to be a common species in Anglesea. 



Many of the small stony pasture-fields are bounded by low 

 bramble-grown turf walls, which provide abundant cover for 

 Whitethroats, Blackbirds, and Yellowhammers. Here the Corn- 

 Bunting, perched on the highest spray, uttered his grating but 

 not unpleasing song ; this bird, however, was by no means gener- 

 ally distributed, being nothing like so plentiful as in the north 

 and west of Anglesea. The Snow-Bunting is probably not 

 infrequent on the coast in hard weather ; we saw a bird at 

 Penmon which had been killed against the telegraph-wires in 

 January, 1902. Throughout the inland district, as well as on 

 the coast, the Cuckoo was fairly plentiful. We may here men- 

 tion that on Nov. 10th, 1899, a female Yellow-billed Cuckoo was 

 found dead on the shores of the Menai Straits at Craig-y-don, 

 near Garth Ferry, during a westerly gale (Geo. Dickinson, ' Ibis,' 

 January, 1900, p. 219). 



We saw a good number of Mistle-Thrushes in the fields and 

 about the smaller plantations, and near Penmon we picked up 

 the shrivelled bodies of two Redwings. The old thorns in the 

 Park had probably proved an attraction to this species in the 

 hard weather in the previous February. Although we kept a 

 constant look-out, we failed to meet with the Yellow Wagtail. 

 The Pied was not uncommon, and the Grey was nesting in two 

 places ; a pair were feeding their young in the bed of a stream 

 at Plas Newydd Park-gates on May 21st, and we several times 

 saw another pair in a little dell between Menai and Garth Ferry. 

 The twitter and trill of the Redpoll in flight attracted our atten- 

 tion everywhere ; the bird was exceedingly abundant, not only 



