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a lost derivation), and the unshelled are “ Malwidzharns,” said to 
mean the naked garden thief. “ Dzharn,” of course, is garden, but 
I cannot make out the “ Malwi.” It is not, however, improbable 
that it is of the oldest of Old Cornish, at which our dictionaries do 
not much help us.—THomas Cornisu (Prussia Cove, Marazion, 
Penzance). 
Bucks and Berks.—\ have heard the following local names of 
animals used in the Thames Valley, on the borders of Bucks and 
Berks :— 
Bat. The larger species, Rat- bat ; Wryneck. Cuckoo's Mate; Nile-bird. 
the smaller, Mouse-bat. About two springs ago I was told 
Sparrowhawk. Blue-hawk. by one of our garden labourers 
By this term the Sparrowhawk is that he had that morning seen 
probably always meant about a “Nile-bird” about in the 
here, though in Scotland the garden, which a little cross- 
term is, I believe, generally examination proved to be the 
applied to Harriers. ** Cuckoo’s Mate,” but whether 
Fieldfare. Pigeon Felt. the term is in common use 
Thrush. Thrusher. locally I do not know. 
Wagtail. Dish-washer. Newt. LHffett. 
Long-tailed Tit. Bottle-tit. Lizard. Land Effett. 
Swift. Devil. Bleak. Taylor. 
Heron. Moll-heron. Miller’s-thumb. Todpole. 
Sandpiper. Summer Snipe. In distinction, apparently, to the 
Little Grebe. Dabchick ; Dabber. genuine Tadpole. 
Tern. Sea-swallow. 
IT have also heard the Polecat, in West Cornwall, called 
“fitchew”; the Stoat, in Oxfordshire, called “ royal hunter”; the 
Wood Owl, in Sussex, called “’ollering owl,” from its cry. One 
bird—almost, if not quite, over the whole of the British Islands— 
changes its name according to the season of the year. People 
speak throughout the spring of hearing the “Corn Crake”; whereas 
in the shooting-season anyone lucky enough to be able to include 
one in his day’s bag, almost invariably mentions it as a “ Land- 
rail.”—ALFRED H. Cocks (Great Marlow, Bucks). 
