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waste of grey weathered rock. Lower down their sides are covered 

 with'short heather and moss, or, in the sheltered parts of their 

 inland slopes, deep heather and dwarf gorse. They are not high 

 enough to be very wet, or to have the spongy moss bogs one 

 knows so well in Merioneth. Only two peaks are to be seen from 

 the top of the Rock, the highest and that whose supplementary 

 crag drops into the sea. Trer Ceiri lies out of sight behind the 

 biggest. I saw no Grouse on them this year, and could not find 

 the Twite. Ring-Ouzels were about, just below the upper masses 

 of rock. There were also a few Stonechats, Wheatears, and 

 Meadow-Pipits, and Wrens in the rocks. Peewits may be seen 

 lower down. But the Peregrine Falcon finds this bit of moor- 

 land worth hunting, for I have seen him come from it heavily 

 weighted with some booty or other. 



I have been able to get some useful information about the 

 birds of Western Lleyn from two men, who, although they did 

 not know the English names of the birds, are keen and accurate 

 observers of the ways of the birds about them. One of them 

 was very quick in picking out those he knew from Mr. Howard 

 Saunders's ' Manual,' which I always find so useful in this way. 

 Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh has also given me some valuable informa- 

 tion, especially about the eastern end of the district, enabling me 

 to add considerably to my list ; and I have also to thank Mr. 

 Forrest for some notes. 



I have added the following species to my list of Lleyn birds, 

 besides some ordinary winter visitors omitted here, which will 

 be included in the notes I made during a visit paid to Lleyn last 

 winter : — 



Redwing. — Sometimes strikes against the St. Tudwal's lighthouse. 



Blackcap. — On the 24th May I heard at least three singing in the 

 Bodfean Woods, and saw one. Mr. Coward and I have visited these 

 woods previously without being able to find the bird ; and I should 

 have thought it possible that the Blackcap, which was unusually 

 abundant in its usual haunts in 1902, had chosen this year for pushing 

 its range further west into Lleyn had not Mr. Caton Haigh informed 

 me that he had found it fairly common in the woods and gardens at 

 Broom Hall (east of Pwllheli), and that he had also heard it at Bod- 

 fean. I think the Blackcap is very locally distributed in Lleyn, and 

 that it is probably (at present) only fairly common in certain years. 



