NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF LLEYN. 209 



Jack-Snipe. — " Myniar." Occurs in winter about Aberdaron. One 

 seen in November, 1902. 



Greenshank. — Mr. Forrest mentions that Mr. Day told him that 

 this species is rather numerous on the flat coast west of the mouth of 

 the Dwyfawr, and that he had shot six at different times. 



Knot. — The same gentleman, in severe weather early in 1895, saw 

 a very large flock of Knots on the same coast, and shot several birds. 



Stormy Petrel. — Known at Aberdaron as appearing at sea in 

 changeable weather. The searches I have made for breeding birds 

 have not at present been successful. 



Shoveler. — Mr. Caton Haigh tells me that an adult drake was shot 

 on a pool on Pen y chain in the winter of 1900-01. Mr. Forrest saw, 

 while they were in the hands of a birdstuffer, a duck and drake, which 

 he subsequently learned were killed close to Pwllheli in the second 

 week in December, 1902, where they had been met with previously. 



Pintail. — Mr. Caton Haigh once saw a small flock of these Ducks 

 on the Afon Erch, but did not shoot one. 



Pied Woodpecker. — I repeatedly heard the loud rattle of this bird 

 in the Bodfean Woods on the 24th May, 1902, but could not get a 

 sight of the birds, as I did not like to go into the woods at that spot. I 

 have always expected to find this species in the Lleyn Woods, and 

 Mr. Caton Haigh thinks he has seen it in the district, and that it has 

 bred in the woods at Broom Hall ; Mr. Lloyd-Edwards, of Nanhoran, 

 told him that it was rare there. 



White Wagtail. — On the 18th April, 1898, Mr. Caton Haigh saw 

 a party of about seven or eight on the seashore at Afon Wen. I have 

 seen it on the Merioneth shore in May. 



Water Rail. — There is a stuffed Water Rail in a public-house near 

 Pwllheli ; killed at least thirty years ago, and doubtless a local speci- 

 men. Mr. Caton Haigh has seen this species in the marsh between 

 Pen y chain and Pwllheli, but thinks that it is rather scarce. 



Bittern. — Mr. Caton Haigh tells me that one was picked up in a 

 disabled condition in the marsh not far from Abersoch Station, and is 

 preserved at Broom Hall ; and that two are said to have been seen by 

 the lake at Glasfryn, he thinks, in 1900. 



Whooper. — He also tells me that the Whooper has visited the 

 pools at Afon Wen several times. 



Bean-Goose. — Also that he saw a Bean-Goose there on the 20th 

 October, 1898, and that there is a local specimen preserved at Broom 

 Hall. 



