148 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



(Duncan Ban Maclntyre) ; Gille-boidhre (Shaw's Gael. Diet.); 

 Fear-chu, dog-fox (H. S. Diet.); Cu-ruadh, red-dog (Rob. Donn's 

 Gael. Songs). 



Irish. Sionnach (MacB.) ; Loisi, obs. (C. M. R.). "The 

 following are found in the Irish dictionaries : Bannach ; Cliabhach, 

 Cliamhach, a wolf or fox; Criomhthan ; Fainche; Fuinche; Rod- 

 muinn " (C. M. R.). 



Note. "The old Irish Loam, a personal name whence the district 

 of Lome was named, means " fox," and is cognate with Breton 

 Louarn, Cornish Lowern, both meaning " fox," and with 

 Llywernog, a place-name occurring several times in Wales " 

 (C. M. R?). 



Seal. 



Ron; Beist-mhaol, bald (H. S. Diet.); Maolag, Maoileag, 

 female of Common Seal; Moineis, female of Grey Seal (Car;//. 

 Gad.). 



Irish. Ron. 



Old Irish. Ron (MacB.) 



Grey Seal (HalieJuvrus gryplws, Fabricius). 



This large seal is known as Tap-vaist; in Orkney it is 

 called Haaf-fish. Macdonald's Gael. Diet, gives Tap-bheist. The 

 Rev. Chas. M. Robertson explains that the first part of the name 

 Tap-vaist comes from the Norse " Haf," ocean, borrowed into the 

 Gaelic. In words so borrowed initial // regularly becomes / " haf- 

 bheist," " taf-bheist." 



Tap-bheist therefore means "oceanic" or "pelagic" beast; dis- 

 tinguishing it well from the smaller species frequenting the shores 

 and narrow waters. 



Walrus (Odobeenus rosmarus, Linnreus). 



Each-mara, sea-horse (H. S. Diet.) ; Each-uisge, water-horse 

 (McA.); ("the latter usually applied to the Water-horse of super- 

 stition," C. M. R.). 



Irish. Capall-mara, sea-horse ; Capall-fairge, ocean-horse ; 

 Capall-nimhe, venomous (C. M. R.). 



Old Irish. Rosualt, walrus; later Rasmhaol, sea-calf; "these 

 two forms of the same word are obviously borrowed from old Norse 

 ' hross-hvalr,' a walrus, literally ' horse-whale ' ; the two terms being 

 transposed in Walrus, 'whale-horse" (C. M. R.). 



