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REFERENCES EDWARDS, V. C. Wynne, LOCKLEY, R. M. and SALMON, H. Morrey (1936). "The Distribution and Numbers of Breeding Gannets". British Birds XXIX 262-276. FISHER, J. and LOCKLEY, R. M. (1954) Sea-Birds. London. FISHER, J. and VEVERS, H. G. (1943-44). The Breeding Distri- bution, History and Population of the North Atlantic Gannet J. Anim. Ecol. 12 177. JONES, Gwyn and JONES, Thomas (1949). The Mabinogion. Every- man's Library. London. LocKLEY, R. M. (1938). I Know an Island. London. SALMON, H. Morrey and LOCKLEY, R. M. (1933). "The Grass- holm Gannets A Survey and Census". British Birds XXVII 142-152. SEVERN WILDFOWL TRUST, Fifth Annual Report (1951-52), p. 96. BARDSEY'S BIRDS A REVIEW OF THE OBSERVATORY'S FIRST FOUR YEARS WILLIAM CONDRY BARDSEY Bird and Field Observatory was founded in March, 1953, by a joint Council of The Birmingham and West Midland Bird Club, The West Wales Field Society, and interested people from North Wales. It occupies two adjoining houses in the centre of the island, and has the island school for a ringing room and lab- oratory. It has produced three annual bird-reports and will soon bring out another. These reports are making Bardsey well known among ornithologists as a bird-watching station. The total of birds ringed in three seasons is nearly 6,000. Now, after four years of adolescence, the Observatory may be said to have reached something like the beginnings of maturity. Therefore the moment seems apt for an appraisal of the ornithol- ogical work so far accomplished and for a look at what might be achieved in the future. I will deal with the records season by season, but first perhaps a glance at pre-Observatory records of Bardsey birds will not be out of place. Prior to 1953 Although no one has yet produced for Bardsey what Peter Davis has for Lundy, namely, a check-list of all birds recorded on the island, nevertheless some useful past information is available, especially in papers by O. V. Aplin (1902-3) in the Zoologist and N. F. Ticehurst (1919-20) in