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in the wooded belt near the Straits, but along the hedges, and on 

 gorse-covered hill-sides and commons. 



Pheasants are hand-reared in many places, and the Partridge, 

 owing to preservation, is not uncommon. The Landrail we found 

 exceedingly abundant ; in May and June birds were incessantly 

 craking in almost every field. Both Coots and Moorhens were 

 nesting in some numbers in the llyns near Beaumaris, and the 

 latter on brooks and small ponds in many places. The Coot 

 was specially abundant on Llyn Bodgolched, a fair-sized pool, 

 much choked with rushes and buckbean. Here were also a 

 pair of Redshanks, several Mallards, and a few Reed-Buntings. 

 The last-named bird appears to be very local in Eastern 

 Anglesea. 



The nature of the country in the southern part of the district 

 is very different from the high land on the north-east coast. 

 Here the Rivers Cefni and Braint enter Carnarvon Bay after 

 the}' have flowed through low-lying marshy valleys separated by 

 a low ridge of cultivated land which terminates in Newborough 

 Warren, a great waste of sand-hills extending two miles back 

 from the shore, and with a' sea-frontage of nearly four miles. 

 From just below Llangefni to Maldraeth Yard, a distance of 

 some five miles, the Cefni flows between artificial banks which 

 prevent the valley from being inundated by the tide. The 

 reclaimed land is, however, in many places impassable swamp, 

 while even the best pastures are thickly grown with rushes. 

 The lush meadows are divided by deep muddy ditches, and in 

 places by dense untrimmed whitethorn hedges, which, when we 

 visited the marshes, were full of noisy Whitethroats. 



On May 21st the hedgerows and the beds of rank herbage in 

 swampy places were ringing with the songs of Sedge-Warblers. 

 We had not noticed this bird in the wooded country between 

 Beaumaris and Llanidan, and it was by no means common else- 

 where. At noon, in bright sunshine, a Grasshopper-Warbler 

 was reeling from the top of a low thorn-hedge ; it allowed us to 

 approach within a few yards, and we were able to see that during 

 the snatches of song its widely gaping mandibles were never 

 closed. When the bird flitted along the hedge its rounded tail 

 was very noticeable. When we passed the spot some three 

 hours later the bird was still singing. Like the Sedge-Warbler, 



