‘SHE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 59 
HOUSE SPARROW, Passer domesticus. 
Very common, very noisy, and very 
impudent, as everywhere else. I think 
also increasing during the past few years. 
In 1897, one of my boys killed a 
beautifully pied Sparrow at Talybont. I 
may also add that a pure white Sparrow 
was killed at Burytown in Wiltshire, and 
is now in the Natural History Museum, 
but the Sparrow is very liable to 
albinism. Williams gives the Welsh as 
Golfan or Aderyn y wt, a bird of the 
thatch. 
GREENFINCH, Coccothraustes chilorts. 
Common throughout the _ county. 
Welsh, Liéinos werdd (Williams). 
HAWFINCH, Coccothraustes vulgaris. 
Now increasing. The late Mr. Roche, 
of Tregunter, told me that some thirty- 
five years ago a large flock of these birds 
established themselves in the large trees 
near his house, and that they stayed 
there nearly the whole winter, which, if 
I recollect right, was a severe one. He 
well remembers catching numbers of 
