THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 97 
COMMON CRANE, Grus cinerea. 
Although now, of course, extinct, yet 
I think it mnst have formerly occurred 
here in years gone by in some numbers, 
from the fact that the Welsh, both here 
and in Carmarthenshire, invariably call 
in English, the Heron a ‘Crane ’— 
indeed I never remember a native call 
the Heron by any other name. The 
Welsh for Crane, as given in Richards’ 
Dictionary, is Cvrychydd, but he does 
not apply this word to the Heron, 
although two of the other names of the 
Crane and Heron are identical in Welsh; 
still I always hear the Heron called 
Crychydd by the Welsh both here and 
in Carmarthenshire, and this would lead 
one to believe that the name of the 
Crane had in some way descended to 
the Heron, and although this is far 
from conclusive as to the former occur- 
ring here, still I think it is well worth 
noticing. 
HERON, Ardea cinerea. 
Very general everywhere on all our 
rivers and streams, It breeds sparsely 
in scattered pairs all over the county; 
