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Notes.——One summer thirteen nests of Chiffchaff and two of Willow Wren were detected in the grounds, probably the relative numerical proportion of the two species in North Pembrokeshire. Both nests of the Willow Wren were lined with the small feathers of the Heron, numbers of these birds frequenting the pond on the lawn near which the nests were found.

—Was detected by its beautiful song in the spring of 1886. Many people used to come to listen to the bird, which I frequently saw while in song. As it remained for weeks, it might have had a mate and nest. It did not return the following year.

—As there were numerous evergreens in the plantations, all the species of Tit were abundant, and some beautiful nests of the Long-tailed Tit were found: one, in an oak, was constructed of dead oak-leaves mixed with the glaucous lichen from the trunk of the tree; another, in a willow overhanging the stream, was built of green moss, in which were worked numerous short and bright feathers from the Cock Pheasant.

—This bird was a pest, flocking into the shrubberies to nest from the bare country round. One spring I waged war against them, and destroyed over twenty nests, getting a fine series of nearly one hundred eggs.

—Was only once seen on passage in April.

—Semi-domesticated and very tame; nesting every year in old pigeon boxes against the house; and in old Crows' nests.

—Only one seen late in October.