34 THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 
a bird of the year. The late Mr. 
Marshall, of Belmont, Taunton, was 
anxious to obtain it for his collection of 
Albinos, but he was unable to do so. 
At the sale of Mr. Williams’ stuffed 
birds, it however realised by auction, 
44 1tos.—an Albito Crow being a great 
rarity. 
Very singularly Mr. Rees Williams 
killed another quite White Carrion Crow, 
about three months afterwards, in a field 
near Coedmawr, Brecon. This would be 
about three or four miles from where he 
killed the first, but he does not think it 
was the same hatch, as he often saw the 
former bird by itself before killing it. 
Unfortunately the feathers of the latter 
bird were in such a bad condition that 
it was impossible to have it preserved. 
ROYSTON OR HOODED CROW, 
Corvus corntx. 
I have never yet seen this bird alive 
in the county, and can only record with 
certainty four instances of its having 
been met with here. One by Mr. 
Williams Vaughan, another in November, 
1895, when Captain Sandeman saw a 
