78 THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 
appropriate. 
RED GROUSE, Tetrao scoticus. 
Still fairly plentiful on our heather- 
covered hills, and, for the reasons 
mentioned in the last paragraph, greatly 
increasing of late years. On the Eppynt 
Hills, Sir John Dillwyn Llewelyn and 
another gun killed, to the best of my 
recollection, some years since, thirty 
brace on the first day of the season; but 
his hill is a very extensive one, and he 
is too good a naturalist and sportsman 
to kill them down too closely. The 
same remark applies to Lord Glanusk 
and Mr. Williams-Vaughan, who have 
a fair stock. On the hills between 
Devynnock and Penwylit the Grouse 
have greatly increased, and where a few 
years ago one could only see four or five 
birds, one may now see several packs. 
On one of these hills, in 1880, I and 
another gun killed five brace in Septem- 
ber after the usual Grouse-shooting had 
taken place; and I am told they 
are now more plentiful still, such are 
the excellent effects of a little preserva- 
tion. On the same hill on the 13th 
