222 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
showed specimens of the beetle in a living state, and also of the fir shoots 
and bark, which gave decided evidence of their destructive habits. Mr. Peter 
Cameron made some remarks on the specimens. 
Provincia Names oF Britisa Brrps, &c.—The western nomenclature 
is peculiarly characteristic. All the names in the following list are in 
common, I might say exclusive, use in the south-eastern part of Cornwall, 
which is the district I am best acquainted with, and many, if not all, are 
general in all the country lying west of the Vale of the Exe. The spelling 
is of course my own, but I think it may be taken to represent the sound 
pretty correctly. By the way, has it struck any philologist that names of 
animals, particularly of birds, whose names are under the protection of the 
rising and birdnesting generation, are more likely to be handed down 
correctly than perhaps any other words. Is not this worth the attention of 
the Anthropological Society? In giving the common English name in the 
following list I have, as to birds, followed Yarrell :-— 
Mistle Thrush 
Holm-screech 
Blue Titmouse Hackey-maw] 
Yellowhammer Gladdie 
Chaftinch Copperfinch 
Greenfinch Green Linnet 
Bullfinch Hoop 
Wren Ranney 
Water Rail Gutter-cock 
Wagtail Dish-washer 
Nightjar Night Crow 
Heron Hern 
Woodpecker Hood-awl 
. Peewit Horney-wink 
Common Snake Long-cripple 
Mole Want 
Worm Angletwitch 
Hedgehog Hadgey-boar 
Bat Airey-mouse 
Wasp Apple-drane 
Humble-bee Drumble-drane 
Shrew Mouse Screw 
Weasel Cane 
The name for the Peewit is more local than perhaps any of the others. 
I do not recollect having heard it out of Cornwall. In that for the Wood- 
pecker “ Hood” is the western pronunciation of “ Wood”; as, for example, 
