OCCASIONAL NOTES, a ips) 
a stray shoal has been taken in, and even at the end of, December, but 
this is quite an exceptional occurrence. This last season has run right on 
into January, and the fishing of the latter part of the season has been more 
productive than that of the earlier part. Usually the Mackerel do not 
arrive on onr western coasts until the end of February. This year they 
are with us already (28th January). I can offer no explanation of these 
remarkable facts.—'THomAs Cornisu (Penzance). 
Poputar Names or Animaus.—lI am preparing for the English Dialect 
Society a dictionary of the popular names of animals, reptiles, crustacea, 
and insects; in fact, of all zoological objects excepting birds and fishes, 
which are in the hands of the Rev. C. Swainson and Mr. T. Satchell 
respectively. I shall be very grateful for any help which the readers of 
‘The Zoologist’ can afford me.—Jamus Brirren (British Museum). 
Tue tare Mr. Epwarpd Hearte Ropp.—A valued correspondent and 
one of the oldest contributors to the pages of ‘ The Zoologist’ has passed 
away, in the person of Edward Hearle Rodd, who died at Penzance on the 
24th January last, from a combined attack of bronchitis and pleurisy. It 
is with unfeigned regret that we record this event, a regret. which we feel 
sure will be shared not only by those of our readers who were personally 
acquainted with him, but by those also who knew him only by corre- 
spondence and by his published communications to this journal. Mr. Rodd 
was one of those who took the greatest delight in out-door observation, and 
especially the observation of the feathered tribes. From the year 1843, 
when this journal was commenced, until the time of his death, at the age 
of sixty-nine, he was in the constant habit of taking notes on his favourite 
subject, which he communicated from time to time to these pages; and 
very valuable many of these notes are. Owing to the zeal and exertion of 
Mr. Rodd, many a rare bird in Cornwall has been rescued from oblivion ; 
while several species, such as the Spotted Eagle, Lesser Grey Shrike, 
Red-breasted Flycatcher, and American Little Stint, have been added to 
the British list entirely through his instrumentality. He was especially 
interested in the subject of migration, and the large number of facts which 
he has recorded in connection therewith, not only in these pages, but in 
the ‘Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall,’ and in the Natural 
History columns of ‘The Field,’ will be found of material value by those 
who may desire reliable statistics from which to generalize. 
In 1864 Mr. Rodd published an octavo pamphlet of forty-two pages, 
entitled ‘A List of British Birds, as a Guide to the Ornithology of 
Cornwall,’ a second edition of which appeared in 1869. At the date of his 
death he had for some time been engaged, at our earnest entreaty, in the 
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