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gwyfan on June 10th. These June birds are laggards, for by 

 that time most of the Turnstones have gone north. In October 

 Turnstones and Redshanks are abundant on the rocky parts of 

 the coast. 



South-west from Rhos Neigr the coast is rocky, with a few 

 sandy reaches in the bays, and a break of some extent near 

 Aberffraw, where the south bank of the River Ffraw is flanked 

 by a broad stretch of sand-dunes. The cliffs do not rise to any 

 great height until the bold headland of Pen-y-Parc is reached. 

 This headland overlooks the Malldraeth sands, and beyond the 

 estuary the desolate wastes of Newborough Warren. Carrion- 

 Crows and Kestrels breed in some numbers along the low cliffs. 

 One Kestrel, alarmed by our sudden appearance on the beach 

 below her nest, left so hurriedly that she kicked a downy young 

 one on to the sands below. We again (cf. Zool. 1904, p. 29) saw 

 a Kestrel carry off a Starling. Our attention was attracted by a 

 commotion in a hedge where Blackbirds, Starlings, a Sky-Lark, 

 and a Reed-Bunting were clamouring ; from their midst rose a 

 Kestrel, bearing in its talons a young Starling, and with evident 

 labour made off towards the coast. The Wheatear is fairly 

 common here ; on the west coast, except at Carmel Head, we 

 met with only one pair — at Llanfwrog — and saw none between 

 the North Stack and Rhos Colyn. The Rock-Pipit is abundant, 

 as it is wherever the coast is rocky. Colonies of Jackdaws occur 

 here and there, especially where the rocks are overgrown with 

 ivy ; near Llangwyfan some farm-lads were dragging the young- 

 ones from nests in the ivy to make into pies. At one of the 

 colonies we saw a Carrion-Crow hotly pursuing a Jackdaw which 

 was carrying food to its nest ; it desisted, however, when a 

 number of Daws and a Kestrel mobbed it. 



The Merlin is not so common here as it is on the north 

 coast ; near Rhos Colyn one resented our appearance on the 

 cliff, but we saw nothing of a pair which, in previous years, we 

 had seen near Llangwyfan. There is but little ling on the brows 

 above the cliffs here, and the birds have to seek other nesting sites. 

 In 1891 this pair laid in an old Carrion-Crow's nest in an exposed 

 position. On June 18th there were three young ones whose 

 quills and tail-feathers were just appearing through their whitish- 

 grey down. When handled they gamely threw themselves on 



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