THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 17 
MARSH HARRIER, Circus ZYUgINOSUS. 
I fear extinct. This bird was formerly 
common on the hills between the Storey 
Arms and Merthyr. There were three 
beautiful specimens killed in this county, 
_and splendidly preserved by Leadbeater, 
in the possession of the late Mr. David 
Thomas, of Brecon. 
HEN HARRIER, Circus cyaneus. 
Now nearly extinct. A pair for years 
nested on the Breconshire side of the 
river Wye near Nantgwyllt, Radnorshire, 
but were at last trapped on account of 
their extreme destructiveness, and their 
nest and eggs taken. I am indebted for 
the above information to a lady, one of 
the Nantgwyllt family, herself a keen 
lover of Nature and a great preserver of 
all wild birds, who kindly showed me the 
hen bird which had been preserved and 
was in her possession. She has also a 
specimen each of the Hobby (above 
alluded to) and Merlin, killed at the 
same place, and several Buzzards, which 
bears out my statement that the Buzzard 
is still far from rare in the county. In 
Welsh Hebog llwydlas. 
