132 THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 
not breed in this county. Williams gives 
the Welsh name of Cormorant as Mor- 
fran, or Sea Crow. 
THE SHAG, Graculus cristatus. 
I have only known of one occurrence 
of this bird in the county and that was 
killed by Mr. Williams-Vaughan’s keeper 
on the Wye, near Erwood, a few years 
since; it was a young bird but in very 
fine plumage. Its appearance so far 
inland can only be regarded as accidental 
as it is essentially a sea bird. 
GANNET, Sala bassana. 
Miss Lloyd tells me that at Nantgwylt, 
some years ago, she picked up a fine 
Gannet alive (evidently blown in by a 
storm), and kept it alive for some little 
time by feeding it with fish and peri- 
winkles. The nearest sea-coast must be 
at least thirty miles from where the bird 
was found, and shows the fearful power 
of the storms that occasionally oceur on 
our iron-bound coasts. About 20 years 
ago a man passing by Cefn Park, near 
Brecon, seeing a large white bird in a 
