16 THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 
states that Falconry was very general 
amongst the gentry of Wales before the 
introduction of shot-guns. 
In Merionethshire, the late Lord 
Lilford informed me that the Peregrine 
at the present day is called Cudyll glas 
na Craig, but this is no specific name, 
and simply means ‘“ the blue Hawk of 
the rock”; he adds that the Merlin is 
there called Cudyll glas Vach, t.e., ‘The 
little blue Hawk.” ‘This word Cudyll is 
the same as the word Ciryl/l, commonly 
used for all small Hawks in this neigh- 
bourhood, and hereafter alluded to. 
HOBBY, Falco subbuteo. 
Very rare in this county. I have seen 
two stuffed specimens, one a large hen 
bird which was killed near Brecon, and 
another killed near Nantgwyllt. 
A third was trapped on the Allt near 
this house by Mr. Gwynne Holford’s 
keeper on the 4th September last year, 
who brought it to me for identification. 
I have had it preserved; it was an adult 
female bird. It is, of course, only a 
summer visitant, but it very possibly 
bred here. 
