86 THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 
would imagine that our hills were well 
suited to its habits, but Mr Venables- 
Llewelyn writes me that he believes he 
has seen one on the Drygarn Hill, above 
Lianafanfawr, but he was never quite 
near enough to be absolutely certain. 
Mr. Howard Saunders rightly remarks 
of this bird, that west of Herefordshire 
it is almost unknown. 
GOLDEN PLOVER, Charadrius pluvialis. 
Resident with us; it breeds sparingly 
on some portions of the Eppynt hills, 
and on the hills between Llanafanfawr 
and Nantgwyllt it breeds in some num- 
bers. It also breeds on the range of 
hills stretching from the Sugar Loaf, 
near Llanwrtyd, to Llanafanfawr. Oc- 
casionally it comes down to the lowlands, 
but very seldom; it is essentially a 
bird of the hills. In the severe winter 
of 1880 large flocks frequented the fields 
at Newton, close to Brecon, and remained 
for a considerable time. Welsh, /Ahostog 
euvatdd, or Bronddur Twynau; others, 
Chwilgorn-y-mynydd. 
LAPWING, Vanellus cristatus. 
Very common with us all the year 
