THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 3 
result of actual and careful observation. 
I purpose taking first the land and then 
the water-birds. 
GOLDEN EAGLE, Aguila chrysaétus. 
Although there are numerous localities 
that are exactly suitable to its habits, I 
can only record one instance in which 
the Golden Eagle has been met with in 
Breconshire. About forty years ago one 
was killed at Penpont, near Brecon, by a 
keeper of the late Mr. Penry Williams, 
the owner, and through his kindness I 
was permitted to inspect the bird. It 
was stuffed very fairly by a private of 
the 23rd Regiment, then stationed at 
Brecon, but had not been cased. It 
showed no marks of Captivity when I 
Saw it, none of its feathers being worn 
as if from confinement. I should con- 
sider it, from its plumage, to be a bird 
of three or four years old, and to have 
strayed to the Beacons, in search of food. 
About this time I hear that another, 
probably its mate, was killed in the 
adjoining county of Glamorgan. 
The Welsh for Eagle is Eryr; in 
Cornish and Breton, Ex, Williams 
