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where I had found the nest, but saw no signs of the birds on the 

 brook. On May 18th, however, I saw a Dipper on the river Cefni, 

 just above the town of Llangefni. This part of the stream 

 appeared to us to have more of the character of a Dipper's haunt 

 than most of the slow Anglesea streams, and we had looked for 

 the bird here before. I could not find any trace of a nest, although 

 there were many suitable situations. 



Long-tailed Tit. — The Long-tailed Tit is a bird we have 

 seldom met with in the island. On May 5th I saw a single bird 

 at Llangefni, but in the woods near Beaumaris I came across a 

 number of pairs, and was informed by the gamekeeper that the 

 bird is not uncommon in that locality. 



Coal-Tit. — The Coal-Tit also occurs in these woods, but I 

 again failed to find the Marsh-Tit. 



Creeper. — The Creeper is by no means uncommon in the 

 woods to the north of Beaumaris. At Llanfugail, on May 27th, 

 two pairs of Creepers had nests ; one pair were building in a 

 crack high up in a pear-tree in an old walled-in orchard, and 

 another had built behind a notice-board on the church wall. 

 The bird, when it visited the nest, alighted below the board and 

 ran up the wall ; when disturbed it edged out sideways, ran a 

 short distance up the wall, and then flew off. 



White Wagtail. — Pied Wagtails, during the third week in 

 April, were more abundant than I have previously noticed in 

 Anglesea, though I have no doubt that most of the migratory 

 birds had passed before that time. On April 14th I came across 

 a migratory party of White Wagtails on the beach close to Ehos 

 Neigr village, and from then until the end of May birds frequented 

 this spot. Their favourite haunt was a strip of shingle bordering 

 a sandy cove amongst the rocks. Here the drifted seaweed col- 

 lects at high-water mark, and when it dries at low tides attracts 

 numbers of dipterous flies and sandhoppers. At first the party 

 consisted of some twenty birds of both sexes. They were very 

 tame, and fed within a few feet of me when I was seated upon 

 the shingle. The birds constantly chased one another, darting 

 across the sand and shingle, dodging sharply to the right or left, 

 and calling as they flew. Occasionally one of the male birds 

 would utter a short snatch of song, very similar to the song of 

 the Pied Wagtail. On the 16th I met with a single bird on the 



