Xvi. PREFACE. 
most encouraging total, and, as I 
have carefully noted the occurrence 
of’ every fresh bird up to ‘the 
present time, and there  unfor- 
tunately being (what is so much re- 
quired) no Natural History Museum 
in the County, I have yielded to 
the solicitations of many of my 
friends and resolved to publish the 
list in its entirety, trusting that 
it may be useful to all bird lovers, 
and possibly be of some value here 
and elsewhere at a future day. 
I have re-written and consider- 
ably enlarged a great portion of my 
first issue and have in all cases 
where possible added the Welsh 
name to each bird and in this I . 
have had much assistance from a 
rare old Welsh Dictionary by Edward 
Williams (Bardd Glas Morganwg), 
the Blue Bard of Glamorganshire, 
printed in Brecon in 1826. It was 
