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window gently, but it was off at once. Perhaps it was a storm- 

 driven wanderer, and mistook this block of houses on the shore 

 for a range of cliffs ! 



Sparrow-Hawk. — A female flew over me at Bodfean. Mr. 

 Caton Haigh saw several coming in to roost at Nanhoran Park 

 in March. 



Buzzard. — I take this opportunity of recording that in 1904 

 a Merioneth keeper, who knows the Buzzard very well, told me 

 that about a dozen years ago he had often seen Buzzards about 

 the eastern side of the Rivals, and had also seen it at Carn 

 Bodfean. My wife saw what she believed were two Buzzards in 

 the air over Bodfean on May 24th, 1902. A survey of Bardsey 

 was made a few years ago, and a map prepared on a scale of an 

 inch to the acre. On this are marked many ogofs round the 

 coast (i. e. caves, or perhaps only chasms, for quite shallow 

 hollows are called "ogof "). On the east side of the map I saw 

 marked " Ogof Barcut," and also " Trwyn Ogof Barcut." Barcut 

 is undoubtedly the Celtic name for the Buzzard. 



Osprey. — A friend told me (Sept. 25th, 1903) that in the late 

 spring of that year he saw an Osprey on a rock on the west side 

 of Pen-y-chain. I know that once when with another friend of 

 mine, who knows the bird well, he watched an Osprey on the 

 Thames, so I feel sure he was not mistaken. 



Dipper. — Seen at Afon Wen, and at Rhyd Hir Mill. 



Mistle-Thrush. — A common bird, and then in grand song. 

 I saw five close together in a grass field near Bodfean. A hedge- 

 row ash was a favourite perch to sing from. 



Song-Thrush. — More common than in summer, for, in addi- 

 tion to a fair number of birds in song in the usual places, I saw 

 many feeding near the edge of the grass-marshes, or about the 

 gorse, and at the foot of the sand-hills along the coast ; on 

 one occasion there were six or seven close together. These birds 

 were all silent and quiet in their ways, and I thought they 

 looked rather dark and richly coloured, but I did not shoot one. 

 Altogether they gave one the idea that they were foreigners 

 wintering in Lleyn. 



Redwing.— I only saw one, on Feb. 3rd, between Abersoch 

 and Llanbedrog, close to some fine thorn-bushes red with un- 

 touched berries. Mr. Caton Haigh, however, saw hundreds in 



