xx, PREFACE. 
teresting frontispiece to this Book. 
I wish to add my acknowledg- 
ments to the ‘‘Woolhope Natural- 
ist’s Field Club” and also to the 
‘‘ Zoologist”’ for much instructive 
material obtained from their notes 
and papers. 
There are also others who have 
given me many interesting items 
whose names I cannot recall at 
present, but who, I hope, will 
forgive me if I have not men- 
tioned them, and be content with 
the sincere assurance that their 
information has helped to finish 
what I hope may be deemed a 
trustworthy and accurate list of 
the Birds of this County. 
Let me conclude by adding an 
extract from a poem on ‘The 
Bird,’ most assuredly written of 
a Breconshire bird, in 1650, at 
