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taken place ; and I am told this year thej r are more plentiful still, 

 such are the excellent effects of a little preservation. I omitted 

 to add that Grouse are plentiful on Lord Tredegar's excellently - 

 preserved manor near the ' Storey Arms.' 



Grey Partridge, Perdix cinerea. — Still common, I am happy 

 to say, although materially decreased in numbers during the past 

 few j'ears ; wet seasons have played sad havoc with them, and they 

 have also, I think, been shot down much too closely in various 

 localities. This should not he, as a better Partridge country 

 than that round Brecon it is almost impossible to conceive. 



Red-Legged Partridge, Perdix rufa. — Almost unknown. 

 About six or seven years ago a young bird was killed at Scethrog, 

 near Brecon, by Mr. Williams, of Manest, in a turnip-field. 

 About six months afterwards, a gentleman living in Ashbrook 

 Place, Brecon, on going into his garden, saw something running 

 along the ground, and, it being late in the evening, he succeeded 

 in catching it, and sent for a well known sportsman to look at it ; 

 he at once pronounced it to be a Red-legged Partridge, in 

 excellent plumage, and no doubt a bird bred in the county ; it 

 lived for four or five days, but its extreme wildness caused its 

 death. He afterwards related the circumstance to me. Mr. 

 Williams thinks that Mr. Alfred Crawshay, of Talybont, turned 

 out a couple of Red-legged Partridges about a year previously, 

 and that they must have hatched a small brood. In the autumn 

 following, he believes, there were four or five young ones, and 

 surmises that the bird he shot and also the one caught in Brecon 

 were two of them ; the remainder were not seen afterwards. 

 Mi\ Williams is an indefatigable sportsman, and has shot over the 

 greater part of the county for the last thirty years; and these 

 are the only two he has ever seen or heard of as being killed ; it 

 justifies my including it, however, in my list of the birds of our 

 county. 



Quail, Coturnix vulgaris. — An occasional visitor. A friend of 

 mine, shooting near Brecon some years since, flushed a small 

 bevy when Partridge-shooting, but thought at first they were 

 "squeakers"; he, however, followed them up, and killed three of 

 them. At another time I saw a single bird on the hill near 

 Devynnock, and another was killed not far from Llanwrtyd, at 

 Cynghordy, by that excellent sportsman, the late Mr. Henry 

 Gwynne-Vaughan. Mr. Williams- Vaughan, jun., also saw three 



