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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



Sunday evening above the crags to the left of Nant-aber-Glasllyn, and the 

 other close to the top of Carnedd Llewelyn, where its wild cry harmonised 

 perfectly with the solitude and desolate grandeur of that strange plateau. 

 The ravens too appear to be getting scarcer for I only saw one, near Tan-y. 

 Bwlch. However, I did not on this occasion visit the district where I had 

 seen them most commonly, the wild ridges of the Llawllech between Bar- 

 mouth and Dolgelly on the on the south, and Maentwrog on the north. 



Talking about birds, I must not forget to mention that on the first Sunday 

 in August I was sitting on a rock just above the bridge so well known to 

 all tourists in North Wales as Pont-aber-Glasllyn, at the point where the 

 tumbling river, chafed and broken in its rapid descent by its rocky bed, pours 

 itself under the ivy-clad arch into the quiet pool below, in which the stream 

 suddenly loses its strife in placid delight, and musing happily on certain 

 resemblances therein to human life, I noticed a wren feeding its young ones, 

 which were still only half-fledged and unable to leave their nest, beautifully 

 hidden away among a clump of ferns growing on the old bridge. I do not 

 remember to have ever before seen young wrens in their nest so late in the 

 year, though I have seen swallows and martins feeding their nestlings late in 

 September. There too, in his old black coat and white waiscoat, with the 

 usual self-confident flirt of his short tail, was my old friend the dipper, with 

 his companion the grey wagtail, two birds, which from their love for burns 

 and mountain steams, will always be associated in my mind with my happiest 

 holidays. 



But this paper is intended to deal with moths, so with an apology to those 

 of my readers who object to digressions, I return to Pen-y-Gwrid, and thence 

 proceed to Capel Curig, where I took one S. anomala, and found L. olivata 

 abundant, with the larvae of P. hastiana and rufana, while payhulliana and 

 goedartella were only fairly common among the birch trees. From this hotel 

 I started off one rainy morning, for a walk over the moor towards Trefriw, 

 and then, the rain ceasing, turned to the left, going along a succession of 

 wild ridges and summits, among endless beech and parsley fern, and with 

 abundance of A. pratana on the most exposed places, and at last found my- 

 self on the summit of Carnedd Llewelyn, which forms the highest point, and 

 nearly the middle of a ridge, a good three miles long, and all of it standing 

 more than 3000 feet above the sea level, which rises abruptly out of Llynn 

 Ogwen as Carnedd Davyd, and runs northward to be continued at a lower 

 level till it reaches the sea as the well-known head of Penmaenmawr. This 

 ridge I followed southward as far as the descent to Llyn Ogwen, which is 

 very steep, and would be exceedingly dangerous in a mist. Fortunately it 

 kept clear, and I thoroughly enjoyed picking my way down among great 



