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freshly arrived party, for I met with no other flocks in April or 

 after this date. 



Jay. — Again I did not meet with the Jay, but was informed 

 by a gamekeeper on the Baron Hill Estate, Beaumaris, that in 

 the spring of 1904 he himself shot one, and that another was 

 killed in the Baron Hill woods by one of the other keepers ; these 

 were the only two he had ever heard of in Anglesea. 



Swift. — A solitary Swift came in with the rush of migrants 

 on May 2nd. On this day the Swallows and Martins hugged 

 the shelter of the reeds, for the wind rose high after the lull on 

 the 1st, but the more powerful bird flew boldly backwards and 

 forwards high above the lake. Mr. L. Wilson Koberts reports a 

 solitary bird on the same date at Barmouth. No more appeared 

 at Bhos Neigr until the 7th, when I saw five at Llyn Penrhyn. 

 These birds flew over the water for a short time only, and then 

 moved off in a northerly direction. On the 8th and 12th I again 

 saw single birds, and on the 11th Mr. K. J. P. Orton reports 

 that the bird reached its usual haunts at Bangor in some 

 numbers. By the 14th the Swift had reached its quarters 

 inland, but towards the end of May several parties of birds 

 appeared, played for a short time over Maelog, and then 

 departed. 



Nightjar. — The Nightjar was churring in its customary 

 haunt— a rocky outcrop near the lake — on the evening of May 

 18th. After this the bird, which abounds in Anglesea, became 

 general, but I did not notice any movements of passing birds. 



Kingfisher. — Though we have seen the Kingfisher in Anglesea 

 in September and October, we have not met with it in the spring. 

 On May 3rd, however, when I was standing on the Holyhead 

 Pioad bridge over the Cefni, a Kingfisher darted down the river, 

 flying low along the surface and whistling, and disappeared in 

 the distance. As the stream here is embanked and very straight 

 I could see it for a great distance. Shortly afterwards a bird, 

 probably the same, came up stream, flying in a similar manner, 

 and disappeared round the bend in the direction of Llangefni. 

 Last winter a pair of Kingfishers were noticed on the stream 

 north of Beaumaris, where the Dipper nested in 1904, and 

 apparently they remained and perhaps nested. They were seen 

 several times this spring on this stream and one which flows into 



