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species fluctuated a little until the 27th, when the wind had 

 again risen and blew strongly during the night from the S.W. : 

 on the morning of the 28th there were more than a hundred 

 Swallows over the water. These appeared to pass on, and the 

 next movement was on the day of the rush of migrants, the 

 night of May lst-2nd ; on the 2nd both species were plentiful. 

 After this there were always a few birds about, but no great 

 increase until the 14th, when I saw on the cliffs to the south- 

 east of Ehos Neigr many small parties of both species steadily 

 moving along the coast ; I saw no birds flying south. In the 

 evening there were large numbers on the lake, while others were 

 still passing on, crossing the sand-hills due north, as if making 

 for the northern coast by the shortest route. These birds, 

 however, may simply have been going to roost in the reeds round 

 the Valley lakes. I noticed these northerly movements on the 

 19th and 21st, by which time the local Sand-Martins were busy 

 at their nesting-holes ; small parties roosted in the reeds so late 

 as the end of the month. 



House-Martin. — It was not until May 19th that I noticed 

 the first House-Martin, but I expect the birds— rare in Western 

 Anglesea— arrived earlier in more inland localities; by the 

 26th it was well established in several of the places where it 

 nests. 



Linnet. — Early in April I was much struck by the number 

 of small parties of Linnets which continually flew twittering 

 over the sand-hills and commons ; by the middle of the month 

 the resident male birds were singing everywhere : these flocks 

 were much in evidence until about April 19th, but on the 25th 

 I noticed numbers roosting in the reeds, the males singing as 

 they settled down for the night. Even in May, so late as the 

 24th, I saw a few of these flocks, and can only suppose that 

 migratory Linnets pass along this coast. 



Corn Bunting. — During the winter the Corn Buntings which 

 remain in Anglesea flock, but by the middle of April all these 

 flocks had dispersed, and the characteristic song of the male was 

 to be heard on every side. On May 1st, however, I noticed a 

 flock of between twenty and thirty silent Corn Buntings, together 

 with a few Greenfinches and House- Sparrows, flying along a 

 hedgerow near Ty Croes. It seems probable that these were a 



