THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 93 
ally imagined, being regarded by many 
people as merely a very fine Common 
Snipe. About six years ago I flushed 
what appeared to me a very large Snipe 
on a bog on the Eppynt Hills. It made 
no noise on rising, and on my missing 
it, flew steadily and slowly for about one 
hundred yards, when it pitched again. 
I killed it on flushing it the second time, 
and found it to be the Great Snipe, a 
bird of the year. On the large bog at 
Onllwyn in September, 1880, I had just 
knocked down a Common Snipe, which 
my retriever was bringing, and on taking 
it from her a splendid Great Snipe rose 
at my feet, and flew, very like a Wood- 
cock, slowly away; all my efforts to find 
it again were unavailing, although it 
must have settled close by. Mr. Alfred 
Crawshay has killed this bird at Llan- 
gorse in August, 1876, and a man at 
Senny Bridge, who showed me a 
particularly large Snipe that he had 
killed near Cray some years ago, seemed 
quite astonished when I informed him 
that it was a Great Snipe. Welsh, Gzach 
Mawr. 
