THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 57 
some way account for their numbers. I 
often see them both in large and small 
flocks, and a pair or so nested in my 
garden in Brecon nearly every year. 
Welsh, Gwas y Sierri (Williams) or 
peneuryn. 
SISKIN, Fringilla spinus. 
This bird I see occasionally during the 
winter, and generally moving in small 
flocks. 
LINNET, Linota cannabina. 
Common enough, but I think not so 
much so, or in such large flocks, as in 
England. In Welsh, JLéinos, from 
whence probably the name. 
TWITE, Linota flavirosiris. 
Fairly distributed in the winter 
throughout the county. 
MEALY REDPOLL, Linota linaria. 
I am not able to say with certainty 
that we have this bird with us. I have 
not observed it; still it is so very liable 
to be confounded with the common 
