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it by the gamekeeper and one or two of the farmers. I visited 

 the place in June, and found it to be quite suitable for the 

 birds, though owing to the dry "weather there was very little 

 water in the brook. I saw nothing of the birds ; but a boy 

 whom I questioned about them, and who appeared to know them 

 quite well, assured me that they had been about a short time 

 before. 



Cuckoo. — On April 29th a Cuckoo was calling ; others came 

 in on May 2nd, and by the end of the first week in May the bird 

 was abundant everywhere. 



Long-eared Owl. — The gamekeeper whom I have mentioned 

 before described to me minutely a Long- eared Owl which he had 

 seen in May this year close to his cottage near Beaumaris. The 

 bird was being mobbed by a number of diurnal birds, and his 

 attention was attracted to it by their cries. It flew from one to 

 another of the trees in a clump of tall firs. 



Gannet.— On May 28th Mr. Oldham, Mr. Cummings, and I 

 saw two, or possibly three, Gannets off the coast to the south of 

 Ehos Neigr. One was an adult bird with a pronounced yellow 

 head, the other immature. 



Garganey. — On one of the lakes on April 15th I watched for 

 some time a fine male Garganey. When I was still at a distance 

 from it I noticed the prominent white streak above the eye and 

 back along the neck, which showed in strong contrast to the 

 dark crown. From a distance the whole of the wings, except the 

 flights, appeared to be bluish-grey. When I got nearer to it, 

 behind the shelter of a friendly turf-bank, I could easily make 

 out the elongated scapulars, the brown cheeks and breast, and 

 the white wing-bars. It was feeding in company with some 

 Wigeon, generally only dipping its bill and picking something 

 from the surface, but once or twice it up-ended in the typical 

 manner of other surface-feeding Ducks. 



Wigeon. — There were at least thirty Wigeon on this water 

 on April 15th, and I counted thirteen on the 22nd. Most of 

 these birds were in pairs, the drakes constantly whistling as 

 they swam round the ducks, and when swimming holding their 

 necks very straight, an attitude suggestive of sexual excitement. 

 On April 21st I saw a single duck Wigeon on the sea near Pare 

 Point. A few days later all the Wigeon seem to have left. 



(To be concluded.) 



