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fas if Deer had come from Denmark') or fomewhat elfe, 
we know not. 
The Grey Game (tho’ I have not heard of the name) 
Teems to be the Female of the Black 3 which we call 
Gryg-ieir , i. e. G all in £ er ice forum. The R.ed Game we 
call ieir y mynydh t i. e. Gallinulx niontan& 5 becaufe in 
our Country they keep to the higheft Hills, or Alps, 
fdri Welfh bannen^) efpecially if heathy. 
There came this laft May into Cardiganshire two ftrange 
Birds (as I guefs by the Defcription given them) of the 
Aquatic filliped Tribe. They fay they were almoft two 
Yards tall, and of a whitifh colour, with the Tips of their 
Wings dark. I took ’em to be Tome fort of Exotic 
Crane 3 which, whether they portend a Common- 
Weakh or not, I leave to their Interpretation who regard 
Omens. 
This time two Years, there came a Flock of Birds 
[about a Hundred^] to a Hemp-yard, at a place called 
Lhan Dhem Velfrty in Pembrokejhire 5 and in one After- 
noon deftroyed all the Hempfeed. Th.y deferibed the 
Cooks to be all over red as Scarlet , the Hens greenilh 
above, and red underneath 3 about as big, or little lefts 
than Blackbirds 5 with Bills more ftubbed and bigger 
than that of a Bull-finch. I fufpe£t thefe to have been 
Virginia Nightingals; otherwife, I know not what to 
-make of them. 
Our Lakes (tho’ they are very numerous) afford no 
Fifth that 1 can hear of, befides Trout and Eel, and Tor - 
goch and Gwinud , i. e. Shelley and Charre. A Filherman 
protefted to me, that in a Lake called hhyn y Cron near 
Than Berys , he had feveral times catch’d Monocular 
Trouts, the Heads whereof were always fomewhat di- 
ftorted or contracted awry. They farther afTured me, 
that the two higheft Lakes of Snowdon ( Phynnon Vrech 
iattd Phynnon las ) afford no Fifth at all 3 and that the 
Trouts of the other Lakes differ much in colour: But 
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