292 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
North Riding of Yorkshire.—\ have noted the following list of 
names as being iu use in the neighbourhood of Nunnington, in the 
North Riding of Yorkshire :— 
Blackbird. Blackie. Heron. Heron-sewe. 
Blue Tit. Tom-tit ; Billy-biter. Lapwing. TYeeajit. 
Carrion Crow. Dowp or Dob-craw. | Common Redstart. Jenny Redtail. 
Chaffinch. Builie. Ring Dove. Cushat. 
Chifichaff. Feather-poke. Rock Dove. Blue Rock. 
Corn Crake. Corn Drake. Rook. Craw (Crow). 
Fieldfare. Fellfer. Starling. Gyp; Gyp Starnill; Stare. 
Goldfinch. Redcap. Whitethroat. Nettle-creeper. 
Hedge Accentor. Cuddy. Yellowhammer. Goldie. 
With regard to the provincial name in this district for the 
Chaffinch, it may be remarked that the Bulfinch is a scarce bird 
with us, and its name, in an abbreviated form, is erroneously 
applied to the former.— WALTER STAMPER (Highfield, Nunnington, 
Oswaldkirk, York). 
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OCCASIONAL NOTES. 
Goats EATING Topacco.—I can almost cap Mr. Henry Reeks’ story of 
a Goat eating all the tobacco in a friend’s pouch (p. 206.) Nearly thirty 
years ago, when I was a midshipman in the “ Orestes,” on the east coast of 
Africa, we had a goat on board which habitually ate tobacco. I have seen 
her devour a whole cake of ‘Cavendish’ at a time. She also drank rum 
and water with gusto ; and on one occasion she ate up nearly the whole of 
a Latin dictionary of mine,—a “ royal octavo” volume.—Wittiam H. 
Heaton (Meadow Croft, Reigate.) 
WHITE-NUSED DoLPHIN ON THE [RISH Coast.—We have long had, in 
the Museum here, a coloured cast of a dolphin, captured, some fifteen 
years ago, in the vicinity of Dublin Bay, which, lately, by comparing 
a coloured sketch taken from the fresh animal with the excellent figure 
given in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society’ (1876, p.679, pl. lxiv.), 
I was able to identify as Delphinus albirostris (J. E. Gray). So little is 
known critically of the Irish species of Delphinus that it seems very 
probable some of the dolphins hitherto passing under the name of 
D, tursio really belonged to D. albirostris, of which the figures given in 
the ‘ Annals of Natural History’ aud Bell's ‘ British Quadrupeds’ are very 
far from satisfuctory.—A. G. More (Museum of Science and Art, Dublin). 
