THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 67 
beautiful colour of blue and orange, he 
flew a few yards further on, when he 
pitched again, and positively refused to 
move, he seemed so perished with the 
cold; and so we left him master of the 
situation. May not the coldness of this 
climate account for their not increasing 
faster here, for I think they are seldom 
if ever molested ? 
I see it almost every day flying along 
the river under my windows and it nests 
annually in a steep bank near this 
house. The Welsh name is Glas y 
Dorlan. 
THE SWALLOW, Airundo rustica ; 
MARTIN A. urbica; SAND MARTIN, 
fT, riparia; and SWIFT, Cypselus apus. 
Are very common here; in fact I 
see no difference between their numbers 
here and in England. The Sand Martins 
occur in numbers on the banks of the 
Usk. My boys tell me that if you take a 
young Sand Martin from its. hole, and 
place it at the mouth of another hole, it 
will not move; but place it at the mouth 
of the hole in which it has been 
