' PREFACE. Xvii. 
evidently compiled by a man who 
possessed some knowledge of Birds, 
as will be seen by my Welsh 
Notes on the Eagles, Owls, and 
Crows, most of which I have 
timen\ from it.) Tt iis, however, 
much to be regretted that many of 
the Welsh names applied to various 
species of birds at the present 
day are generic and not specific. 
The deep Welsh known to cultured 
Welshmen is rarely used in every- 
day life, and scarcely ever written, 
hence many of the old Welsh 
names of birds have died out, and 
in their stead names of general 
application have come into vogue, 
such as are in common use in 
South Wales at the present day, 
and the names I have obtained 
from Williams’s Dictionary, and 
the quotations with the dates which 
he gives from his favourite Bards, 
some of which I have reproduced, 
