THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 75 
introduced into Wales, but probably it 
soon spread from the large woods of 
Herefordshire until it established itself 
in the Great Forest of Brecon. It seems 
to do very well here, bearing severe cold 
with impunity. One of the _ largest 
Pheasants I have ever seen was a cock 
of the old-fashioned colchicus type, killed 
in 1879 in Lord Hereford’s preserves at 
Tregoyd, by my friend, the Rev. John 
bowen, the Vicar of, Talearth:" (it 
weighed 3 lbs. I0 ozs., and measured 
2 ft. 104 ins. from tip of beak to tail; it 
was a very old bird. But the largest 
bird of all was one killed on Col. 
Morgan’s Hstate at Cilhowey by the late 
Major Bargrave Watkins, a few years 
since. It was a cock and evidently a 
first cross between Codchicus and Torgua- 
fus it having the ring only half-way 
round its neck. I weighed it the 
morning after it was killed and it then 
weighed 4lbs. 24 ozs. It was preserved 
and is now in Col. Morgan’s possession. 
It was a wild bred bird. I think that 
the buying of eggs to rear pheasants 
has to a great extent re-introduced the 
old English pheasant (Colchicus) into this 
county besides having a most beneficial 
