20 THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 
crept up to the fowls for warmth. On 
another occasion during a _ continued 
snow I saw a Sparrowhawk make a most 
determined attack on a duck-wing bantam 
cock, and had she not been driven off I 
believe she would have killed him. A 
station-master who lives on the borders 
of this county, and who keeps canaries 
in the large glass window of the station, 
tells me that he has caught three 
Sparrowhawks that have struck at the 
canaries, two of which dashed right 
through the glass and were killed, and 
the other stunned itself and was picked 
up outside the window. 
Sparrow Hawk is Czryll, plural Czryllod, 
and this name is commonly used in 
Breconshire, but I am sure it is also 
applied to the Kestrel. Williams renders 
Sparrow Hawk, Gwipfai, Gwifia, and 
Gwibiay; and adds, “A kind of Falcon 
(Watch, t.e., Gwalch), or Hawk (Hebog) 
of a small kind,” evidently meaning by 
this that it was used for hawking; most 
probably he has mistaken the Sparrow 
Hawk for the Merlin. I know the word 
Ciryll is generally used by the farmers 
for any small Hawk. Williams also gives 
Lilemysten but this, I imagine, is very 
