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ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM MID-WALES, 199 
On Feb. 16th a Stonechat was coming into song, and on 
March 13th I heard the Wood Lark. <A Dipper was sitting on 
five eggs, which on March 31st appeared to be within a day or 
two of hatching, under the archway of a stream between Cemmes 
Road and Llanbrynmair. At the same place a Chiffchaff was 
silently making its way down the valley from willow to willow, 
confirming my view that many of the migrants reach Cardigan- 
shire by this route—that followed by the Cambrian Railway. In 
early April I found Buzzards numerous at Dinas Mawddwy. 
The snow had driven them down to the woods in the vicinity of 
the hotei. Only one pair of Ravens was seen; they were making 
over towards Lake Vyrnwy, the Liverpool reservoir, where they 
were reported to be nesting on the rocks above the lake. Both 
pairs of Ravens occupied their usual nesting sites upon the 
coast near Aberystwyth, and on April 28th I found a pair 
breeding at Craig y Pistyll; young ones could be heard in the 
nest. A pair of Choughs occupied their usual sea-cave near the 
Ravens. 
On May 12th, a bitterly cold day, I found Curlews sitting 
upon three and four eggs respectively. On the 14th I noted a 
pair of Ravens breeding at the lower end of the Nant Berwyn, 
near Tregaron. They sailed out from the hill-side, coughing 
and growling till the rocks rang again. On the same day, at 
Nant y Stalwen, I saw five stalwart young Ravens, fully fledged, 
strung up against a barbed-wire fence, and on the following day 
I was offered two young ones which had been taken that morning 
from the nest at Pwll Uffern. On the 15th I saw a Kite go 
down the valley ; it was sailing almost in Buzzard style, without 
much flapping. The birds had attempted to nest once more in 
their favourite tree, and fresh marks of climbing irons indicated 
that the eggs had been taken, making the fifth year in succession 
in which they have been obtained from this nest. A dealer visits 
the district regularly in quest of Kites’ eggs, and the extinction 
of the birds can only be a matter of a year or two. A Tree 
Creepers nest close by was lined with Kites’ feathers. A 
Buzzard’s nest contained two newly-hatched young, and an egg 
from which a third one had failed to extricate itself. By way of 
provision, the nest contained a half-eaten mole. I was told that 
in every brood of young Buzzards the strongest individual kills 
