THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 9QI 
with us, especially on the banks of the 
Usk and Wye, where it breeds; it is 
also to be found on most of our smaller 
streams. It is very tame during the 
breeding season, and its elegant flight 
and twittering wailing cry form a pleas- 
ing accompaniment as with rod in hand 
one follows the windings of our beautiful 
rivers. Welsh, Pibydd-y-trath. 
KNOT, TZringa canutus. 
The only instance I can quote of its 
occurrence here is a specimen killed 
near Hay, most probably an exhausted 
migrant ; also one reported as seen in 
September last year on the drive at 
Bolgoed. 
DUNLIN, TZvinga alpina. 
Occurs very occasionally at Llangorse 
Lake and on the River Usk. One was 
killed there 11th August, 1890, by my 
son J. Vaughan Phillips; another on the 
29th December, 1890, at Vennyfach, near 
Brecon; and four others on the Usk at 
Llansaintfraed by Mr. A. Crawshay. 
