152 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



of above; Faol (obs.) ; Faol-chu; Lub (E. R. A.); Fiadh-r.hu 

 (C. M. R.) ; Mac-tire, son of the earth (poetl.). 



Irish.- Faol ; Faol-chu (MacB.). 



Old Irish. Sigach ; Glaidemain (pi., C. M. R.) ; Cii-allaid ; 

 Brech ; Cii (G. C). 



Beaver {Castor fiber, Linnaeus). 



Los-leathan; Dobhran los-leathan. These are given in Lays of 

 the Deerforest, Shaw's Did., LL. S. Gael. Diet. ; but no reference or 

 authority is anywhere given. 



Leas-leathan, broad-hipped (C. MacD.) ; this last is the sole 

 trace that I have found in living Gaelic speech. No mention of 

 the beaver has been found in song, story, or folk-lore. Dobhar-chu, 

 in McAlpine's Diet., seems to hint at an ancient tradition of the 

 beaver "a kind of Otter which has no existence but in Donald's 

 imagination ; the price of its skin, which can heal all diseases, is its 

 full of pure gold when made into a bag a chimera." This passage 

 seems to point to a traditionary recollection of the Beaver, to the 

 mediaeval belief in the medicinal virtues of the castoreum and the 

 value of the skin ; but McAlpine dismisses it as a "chimera." 



Dobhar-chu to-day certainly refers to the Otter. 



Elk (Alees a/ees, Linnaeus). 

 Lon ; Miol (E. R. A.) ; Damh-mointich, moorland (MacR.). 

 Irish. Boirche (O'R., Ir. Diet.). 



Wild Boar (Sus serofa, Linnaeus). 



Fiadh-thorc; Torc-fiadhaich ; Torc-nimhe, poison (E. R. A.); 

 Fiadh-chullach. 



Irish. Tore allaidh, wild ; Fiaclach-coille, tusker of the wood. 



Old Irish. Triath (C. M. R.). 



Wild Swine. Muc fhiadhaich; Fiadh-mhuc; Muc-allta (Book of 

 Dean of Lis more, C. M. R.). 



Wild Cattle (Bos). 



Crodh-fiadhaich ; Damh-allaidh, wild ox (Book of Dean of Lis- 

 more, C. M. R.). 



