THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 73 
trees. The best evening I ever had for 
three guns was 136, but of these Mr. 
Crawshay killed by far the most. The 
birds used to roost in the wood from 
October to March, and in April only a 
few were left. I have no doubt many, 
if not most of them, were arrivals from 
the Continent. I may add that the 
Wood Pigeon breeds remarkably true to 
colour and I have rarely if ever seen a 
pied or albino bird certainly not alive. 
The Welsh is Vsguthan. 
STOCK DOVE, Columba enas. 
Greatly increasing. It breeds in hol- 
low trees in the Usk Valley, also near 
this house, and in the Aberedw Rocks 
on the Wye. Twenty years ago it was 
a most rare bird in the county and I 
hardly ever observed it. Now, however, 
it comes in to roost to the trees in and 
near the Rock Wood with the Wood 
Pigeons and a flock of about 80 were 
most of the past winter feeding on the 
turnips, etc., near Talybont. It is a 
very fast flyer, faster even than the 
Wood Pigeon, and I think a rounder and 
plumper bird, and can be easily distin- 
