NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF LLEYN. 211 



Ring-Ouzel. — Seen again on Yr Eifl, just below the mass of loose 

 rock of which the top of the largest peak is formed. The wings and 

 legs of two which struck St. Tudwal's Lighthouse on Sept. 14th, 1901, 

 were sent to me. 



Hedge -Sparrow. — I find this is quite common. 



Wood- Wren. — In addition to localities mentioned in former papers 

 I noticed it in Coed Rhos fawr between Nevin and Ghwilog. 



Lesser Redpoll. — Mr. Cummings tells me he saw one or two near 

 Abersoch in June, 1901 ; this is the first record I have of the bird in 

 Lleyn in summer. 



Starling. — On the 16th March, 1902, a large flock played round 

 the light on St. Tudwal's nearly all night. There were thousands of 

 them. The keeper, going out on the gallery, was soon covered with 

 the birds. A visitation of this magnitude he had never known previously, 

 although the Starling strikes the light more frequently than any other 

 species. 



Nightjar. — Fairly common. I heard two at once at the foot of 

 Cam Bodfean, and another at Abersoch. Mr. Cummings found the 

 young just hatched at Abersoch in June, 1901. 



Green Woodpecker. — Quite a common bird in Lleyn. Very com- 

 mon in the Bodfean Woods. I heard one hard at work inside a tree, 

 and waited until it put its head out of the hole, perhaps to rest and get 

 cool, as it remained with its head out for several minutes. I noticed 

 birds at Llanbedrog, Coed Rhos fawr, Nanhoran, and Nevin, and even 

 in a little clump of trees standing by a farm at Llanllawen, near Aber- 

 daron, the most westerly spot in Lleyn that it could well inhabit in the 

 nesting season. It would, indeed, be unusual if in May one passed 

 down that glorious road which with gentle windings sweeps along the 

 Nant of the Horan, now between belts of varied woodland, now hemmed 

 in with steep ferny and heathery heights capped with Carn Saethon 

 and Carn Anneddol (haunts of the Kestrel) without hearing the laugh 

 of the Green Woodpecker. When last I passed down the Nant, which 

 reminds one of parts of the Ardennes, a thick cold mist was drifting 

 through it, but even then its charm was strong upon me. At Nanhoran 

 itself, too, where the wild hyacinths make the woods in May a sheet of 

 blue, the Woodpecker's cry, mingled with the Wood- Wren's shiver, 

 the song of Blackbirds, and the ringing note of the Chiffchaff is often 

 to be heard. The green park-lands here, where Pheasants feed out at 

 the wood-edges in the evening, present a strange contrast to the bare 

 wind-swept country around. 



Merlin. — Two nests were found this year on sea-cliffs, and I saw a 

 bird on Mynydd Annelog in May. One nest was at a place where the 



