Psychological Distinctions between Man and Brutes, 1 3 1 



are beneath the notice of men of science, whom I would gladly 

 see discarding the superfluous English names altogether. 

 Some concession must, however, be made to the vulgar cry ; 

 for, if science be not put in a "popular" form, the labours of 

 its real cultivators will not be repaid. If, then, English terms 

 must be superadded to the Latin, I would suggest that the 

 old terms, such as warbler, finch, &c, be as much as pos- 

 sible retained, and that, where a genus has no peculiar English 

 name already, the Latin one should be used in preference 

 to coining a new term. Thus, I would rather say, " hedge 

 accentor, fire-crested regulus, bearded calamophilus, yellow 

 budytes, &c, than burden science with such clumsy appella- 

 tions as dunnock, kinglet, longtail, and willet {alias oatear) ; 

 to say nothing of abern, sum, popin, sprigtail, and the like. 



But 1 would strongly protest against extending the system 

 of English nomenclature beyond the English fauna. What 

 possible benefit can accrue from coining new substantives, of 

 Saxon derivation, for the countless genera of exotic zoology ? 

 I trust we may never see the forms of New Holland or of 

 South America burdened with such uncouth appellations as 

 have been invented for the birds of England. 



Art. VI. On the Psychological Distinctions between Man and all 

 other Animals ; and the consequent Diversity of Human In- 

 fluence over the inferior Ranks of Creation, from any mutual and 

 reciprocal Influence exercised among the Latter* By Edward 

 Blyth, Esq. 



{Concluded from p. 85.) 



I will now proceed to notice, and follow to its bearings, 

 that mysterious impulse (if possible, even more incompre- 

 hensible than ordinary instinct) which guides a migrant 

 animal to its destined haven; which also propels a bee 

 towards its hive, and a pigeon homeward from one ex- 

 tremity of Europe to another; a principle, as will be shown, 

 not wholly absent from the human constitution. The migra- 

 tive restlessness displayed so forcibly by birds of passage, 

 even when raised in confinement, and plentifully supplied 

 with the nourishment they have been accustomed to (thus 

 showing that insufficiency of food is not the predisposing 

 cause, as is also intimated by the early departure of certain 

 species from their summer haunts, after performing the duties 

 of the season), is merely on a par with all other instinctive 

 manifestations : and I may cursorily remark that, from much 

 careful and attentive observation, I have determined, at least 



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