viii. PREFACE TO FORMER ISSUE. 
same in book-form for private 
circulation. 
It has been suggested that the 
birds of this county do not differ 
from those of other counties; but 
the various books and lists of the 
birds of nearly all the counties of 
England and Wales that have been 
published prove the contrary. Many 
birds that once were common are 
now but seldom seen, and if seen 
are usually shot, and so generally 
perish, I regret to say, unobserved 
and unrecorded; for instance, the 
Kite, Aftlvus regalis, still nests in a 
few secluded parts of this county, 
yet in England, in most counties, 
it is extinct, and probably will be 
so here in the course of a few years. 
That careful observer of Nature, 
the late Mr. John Lloyd, of Dinas, 
Brecon, in one of his interesting 
poems, alluding to the gradual 
