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wood there, fired and killed it; he 
brought it to the late Mr. Williams, of 
Closceddau, who had it preserved. On 
inspecting it I found it to be a Gannet, 
an old bird, in most beautiful plumage, 
and it had evidently arrived at its strange 
resting place in the same manner as the 
first-named specimen. I must not omit 
to mention that Cefn Park is certainly 
thirty miles from the sea, as the crow 
flies. Another one, an immature bird, was 
killed at Llangorse Lake by the late Capt. 
Crawshay Ralston, of Pontywall, but as 
this bird does not attain its adult white 
plumage for some few years, I should 
imagine it was in its second year. 
COMMON TERN, Sterna fluviatilis. 
May often be seen at Llangorse, skim- 
ming over the expanse of the lake with 
its peculiarly easy and graceful flight. Mr. 
D. Gwynne Vaughan shot a solitary bird 
of this species on the summit of the 
Eppynt Hills. It has also been obtained 
on the Wye and Usk, but is, I regret to 
say, only an occasional summer visitant 
with us. Williams gives the Welsh for 
Sea Swallow which is another name for 
