APPENDIX. 



DERIVATION OF ' CAPERCAILLIE. ' 



Vide CHAP. I. Addition to Footnote at page 3. 



Since the first chapter of this Essay passed through the 

 press, I have come upon the following passage in Joyce's ' Irish 

 Names of Places] which appears to me to have peculiar signi- 

 ficance in the connection. In his chapter upon Animals [chap, 

 vii. p. 452, third edition, 1871], after telling us that "the 

 transfer of a name from one species of animals or plants to 

 another is a curious phenomenon, and not unfrequently met 

 with," \i. e. in the Erse] op. cit. p. 456, he shows further on how 

 this comes to be exemplified under The Goat and The Horse. He 

 says " The word gabhar (gower), a goat, is common to the Celtic, 

 Latin, and Teutonic languages : the old Irish form is gabar, 

 which corresponds with Welsh, gafar; Corn., gavar ; Latin, 

 CAPER; Ang.-Sax., haefer. . . . The word gabar, accord- 

 ing to the best authorities, was anciently applied to a horse as 

 well as to a goat. In Cormac's ' Glossary ' it is stated that 

 gabur is a goat, and gobur a horse. Colgan remarks that gdbhur 

 is an ancient Irish and British word for a horse," &c. (p. 459). 



ANTIQUITY OF THE SPECIES. 



Vide CHAP. in. page 14. 



Professor Newton informs me that remains of Capercaillie 

 have been found in a Roman layer at Settle, but up to date of 

 going to press I have not learnt anything further than the 

 statement. 



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