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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF 

 ANGLESEA. 



By T. A. Coward. 



(Concluded from p. 386.) 



Tufted Duck. — On another water I saw a pair of Tufted 

 Ducks on April 17th and again on May 7th, but I cannot say if 

 these were migrants or breeders. 



Golden-Eye. — On April 15th and 17th there were single 

 brown-headed Golden-Eyes on two different waters, and on the 

 22nd four together. 



Scoter.— When on the rocks at Pare Point on April 21st I 

 looked right down upon a drake Scoter which was swimming 

 close inshore ; the orange-yellow patch round the nostrils was 

 most conspicuous, seen from above. 



Quail. — A gamekeeper told me that in the spring of 1904 he 

 heard Quail calling on Bwrrdd Arthur, but he had not heard 

 anything of them this spring. 



Water-Rail. — In March, 1905, this same keeper reported a 

 Water-Rail on Llyn Bodgolched. 



Ringed Plover and Dunlin. — The resident Ringed Plovers 

 were in noisily anxious pairs when I arrived at Rhos Neigr; but 

 on April 15th, and on many subsequent days in April and May, 

 I saw parties, varying in size, of Ringed Plovers and Dunlins. 

 These migratory Ringed Plovers were noticeably smaller than 

 the resident birds, and at times when some of the smaller race 

 invaded the chosen stretch of beach of a pair of the residents 

 they were chased away by the birds in possession. Most of the 

 Dunlins were black-bellied birds. On May 2nd I found that the 

 numbers of these two species were' considerably increased. On 

 May 12th-14th, and on May 21st, the flocks of these birds were 

 largest, several of them numbering from fifty to one hundred 

 birds. 



Turnstone. — Occasionally small parties of Turnstones fed on 

 the shingle or amongst the tangle, at times alone, and at times 



