HH BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 77 
BLACK GROUSE, Tetrao tetrix. 
Has always existed in this county, and 
I am glad to say, in spite of repeated 
thinnings, has, thanks to a few spirited 
landowners, considerably increased during 
the past thirty years. In 1881 several 
brace were killed in one day on the 
Marquis of Camden’s property, near Tre- 
castle. Sir John Dillwyn Llewelyn also 
has a good many; and on Lord Trede- 
gar’s, Lord Glanusk’s, and Mr. Williams- 
Vaughan’s hills there is a fair stock of 
birds. In 1896 the latter gentleman 
killed seven old black cocks the same 
day on his Breconshire property. What 
a pity that they cannot have one year’s 
jubilee awarded them in this county, for 
its wet-bottomed woods of alder and 
birch bordering our heathy hills are in 
every respect exactly suited to their 
habits; and their beauty as game birds 
must be appreciated by every true 
sportsman. The many “ Black Cock” 
Inns that are scattered through Brecon- 
shire and South Wales are to a great 
extent evidence of their former occurrence 
here. Welsh, Ceiliog du or Ceiliog y 
mynydd, cock of the hill, the last very 
