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in greater numbers than usual. I have not attempted to mention 

 all the birds I saw, only referring to those about which there is 

 something to add to what we have already published,* or to 

 record movements of the migrants. 



Fieldfare. — On April 15th I saw a flock of perhaps thirty 

 Fieldfares feeding in a field near Llechylched. 



Wheatear. — Wheatears were already established when I 

 arrived at Ehos Neigr ; a male used constantly to sing from 

 the edge of the terrace of the house in which I was staying. 

 The nest was in a rabbit-hole in the sand-hills a few yards' 

 distance from the house. On June 4th, when "Coch-y-bondhu" 

 (Phyllophertha horticola) were swarming all over the dunes, I 

 watched a female feeding her young with the beetles. Every few 

 minutes she brought food to the hole, and though at times she 

 brought caterpillars and once a small butterfly, the majority of 

 her captures were chafers. The male once or twice brought food, 

 but as a rule he mounted guard on the summits of the dunes 

 and made a fuss whenever anyone appeared within sight. Mr. 

 S. G. Cummings saw a male Wheatear at Llys Dulas on -March 

 20th, and on subsequent days met with parties of four or five ; 

 on March 24th he saw about two dozen in a field at Bull Bay. 

 I did not notice any fresh arrivals in April, except on the 17th, 

 when I came across a party of sis in a field near Llyn Penrhyn. 



Whinchat. — On May 2nd there was a " rush" of migrants, 

 mostly Willow Wrens. A male Whinchat was feeding in a field 

 close to Bhos Neigr village : I did not see it there again. On the 

 following day there were a pair on the Cefni marsh, where the 

 Holyhead Boad crosses the river : in this locality a few pairs 

 nest. On May 7th a male was singing on the telegraph-wires 

 where the railway crosses the common north of Bhos Neigr : it 

 was probably a passing bird. 



Bedstart. — The Bedstart is an exceedingly rare bird in 

 Anglesea ; on May 16th a pair were in the one locality where we 

 have noticed them, on the Beaumaris-Menai road, but they may 

 have been there some days before I visited the spot. 



Whitethroat. — The first Common Whitethroat was singing 

 on April 28th ; a few more arrived with the rush on May 2nd, 

 and by the 5th the bird was generally distributed and abundant. 



* ' Zoologist,' 1902, pp. 401-415 ; 1904, pp. 7-29 ; 1905, pp. 213-230. 



