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looking the wood, happily for the Buzzard without his gun, 

 when the Buzzard, making homewards from the moors 

 above, passed so close over his head, that in her confusion 

 she dropped at the keeper's feet a half-devoured young 

 Grouse she had been carrying ! As proving the truth of the 

 old adage that misfortunes seldom occur singly, I was one 

 day, shortly before that, standing talking to the same man, 

 in the village, when a Kestrel entertained us to quite a pretty 

 and spirited flight at a Swallow. Although unsuccessful in 

 killing her game she made several very determined stoops, 

 and when my companion dryly remarked, " Y Gwynlly 

 Goch * must sometimes eat more than mice, I think," I felt 

 very much in the position of an advocate defending a bad 

 case, when his chief witness makes a most incriminating 

 admission ! 



. l I give this name as I had it spelt to me at Llanuwchllyn ; usually it is 

 written Ceinlly Goch, it is said in reference to the bird's shrill voice ; other 

 names being Gellan Goch, and Cudyll Goch : Gwynlly Goch signifies Red 

 Wind-hover. 



