174 FIELD-STUDIES OF RARER BIRDS 



west immature specimens, but also because I have 

 on so many occasions known a pair remain true 

 to their breeding-haunt throughout the year, even 

 to roosting by one of their eyries every night. 



The usual Welsh appellation for the Buzzard 

 is " boda " (plural, " bodaod "), but the term 

 ' bwncath," which means cat-hawk (no doubt 

 from the bird's mewing cry, and so most descrip- 

 tive), is sometimes employed. In North Wales, 

 we are told, the Buzzard is generally called 

 " barcud," which really signifies " Kite," but in 

 South Wales I generally heard the bird called 

 "boda"; the Kite, properly, ''barcud." Yet, 

 should a native of South Central Wales speak of 

 the two species in English, he will frequently con- 

 fuse you, if not versed in his ways, by naming 

 the Buzzard the Kite and the Kite itself the fork- 

 tailed Kite or forky-tail. 



