98 ‘THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 
sometimes there are two or three nests 
in the vicinity of each other, but we 
have no regular heronry in the county, 
and numbers must go elsewhere to breed. 
Formerly there was a heronry at Llwyn- 
wormwood Park, near Llandovery, Car- 
marthenshire, about twenty miles from 
Brecon, as the Crow—or rather the 
Heron—flies, but from some inexplicable 
cause, and without any apparent reason, 
about thirty years ago this heronry 
suddenly broke up into two parties, one 
going to Neuadd-fawr, Cilcwm, near 
Liandovery, the residence of Mr. 
Campbell Davys, and the other, and 
smaller portion coming to Bailyddu, 
Liandilofan, in the county of Brecon, 
where, however. they did not stay long, 
but no doubt gradually distributed them- 
selves over the county. The distance 
from Llwynwormwood to Neuadd would 
be about six miles, and to Llandilofan 
about twelve miles. I am indebted to 
the late Col. Jones, of Velindre, Llan- 
dovery, for the above interesting particu- 
lars. The severe weather of January, 
1881, was most fatal to the Herons. In 
looking for Woodcocks in that month, 
on one of the coldest days I ever 
