138 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Rev. John Bowen, the Vicar of Talgarth; it weighed 3 lbs. 10 ozs., 

 and measured 2 ft. 10J ins. from tip of beak to tail ; it was a very 

 old bird. The Chinese torquatus, with the white ring round the 

 neck, is of comparatively recent introduction here, and is 

 invariably smaller. Many white and pied birds have been killed 

 in different parts of the county, at Clyro, and elsewhere. A. 

 beautiful pied hen, an old bird, was killed near here during the 

 past season. Indeed, of all the game birds, there is none that 

 seems so peculiarly liable to sport white feathers, either in a 

 greater or less degree, than the Pheasant. I fancy that the 

 reason is partly that no fresh blood is introduced. On the other 

 hand, my father had in an aviary at Chippenham, Wilts, a pure 

 white cock Pheasant and two pure white hens, as well as a parti- 

 coloured hen, all of good size and strength. 



Black Grouse, Tetrao tetrix. — Has always existed in this 

 county, and I am glad to say, in spite of repeated thinnings, has — 

 thanks to a few spirited landowners — considerably increased 

 during the past ten years. Last season (1881) several brace were 

 killed in one day on the Marquis of Camden's property, near 

 Trecastle. Mr. Dillwyn Llewellyn also has a few; and on Lord 

 Tredegar's, Sir Joseph Bailey's, and Mr. Williams-Vaughan's hills 

 there is a fair stock of breeding birds. What a pity that they 

 cannot have one year's jubilee awarded them in this county, for 

 its wet-bottomed woods of alder and birch bordering our heathy 

 hills are in every respect exactly suited to their habits; and 

 their beauty as game birds must be appreciated by every true 

 sportsman. 



Bed Grouse, Tetrao scoticus. — Still fairly plentiful on our 

 heather-covered hills, and, for the reasons mentioned in the last 

 paragraph, greatly increasing of late years. On the Eppynt Hills, 

 Mr. Dillwyn Llewellyn and another gun killed, to the best of my 

 recollection, fifteen brace on the first day of the past season (1881); 

 but his hill is a very extensive one, and he is too good a naturalist 

 and sportsman to kill them down too closely. The same remark 

 applies to Sir Joseph Bailey, Mr. Williams-Vaugban, and Mr. 

 Butler, who have a fair stock. On the hills between Devynnock 

 and Penwyllt the Grouse have greatly increased, and where a few 

 years ago one could only see four or five birds, one may now see 

 several flocks. On one of these hills, in 1880, I and another gun 

 killed five brace in September alter the usual Grouse-shooting had 



