ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM MID-WALES. 201 
note of this bird at Love’s Grove; but so scarce is it as a 
breeding species in Western Wales that, though always on the 
look-out for the past six years, I had never met with it previously. 
The Wood Lark sang on Sept. 30th. 
On Oct. 2nd I called to see a Kite in the hands of the local 
birdstuffer. It was said to be an old male, and was, I am afraid, 
a member of the small and dwindling colony above mentioned. A 
Kestrel got up hurriedly from the cliff on Oct. 22nd, dropping a 
half-eaten Thrush as it rose. I have long thought that the 
Kestrel’s misdeeds in this direction are more numerous than is 
generally supposed. A pair of Choughs, long absent from this 
immediate neighbourhood, frequented the hill at the northern end 
of Aberystwyth all through the autumn, apparently for the sake 
of hunting for beetles amongst the slates and débris due to the 
making of a tramway. 
