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PROVINCIAL NAMES OF BRITISH ANIMALS. 
Treland.—It may interest your readers to glance through the 
annexed list of names by which our familiar birds are known in 
Ireland :— 
Peregrine Falcon. Blue Hawk. Meadow Pipit. Titlark. 
Kestrel. Windhover. Rock Pipit. Reck Lark. 
Common Buzzard. Kite; Goshawk.| Creeper. Woodpecker. 
Marsh Harrier. Kite; Brown Hawk.) Ring Dove. Woodquest. 
Short-eared Owl. Woodcock Owl. Common Heron. Crane. 
Water Ouzel. Dipper; Kingfisher ;| Curlew. Whaup. 
River Pie. Whimbrel. Maylhird. 
Missel Thrush. Jay; Big Felt. Common Snipe. Heather-bleat. 
Redwing. Felt. Redshank. Red-leqged Snipe. 
Fieldfare. Blue Felt. Common Sandpiper. Sand Lark. 
Ring Ouzel. Cowboy; Mountain| Dunlin. Sea Snipe; Sea Lark. 
Stare. Turnstone. Sea Lark. 
Wheatear. Stoneychat. Lapwing. Phillipene. 
Stonechat. Blackeap. Bald Coot. Black Diver. 
Willow Warbler. Sallypicker; Golden| Brent Goose. Barnacle. 
Wren. Shieldrake. Burrow Duck. 
Chiffchaff. Sallypicker. Pintail. Sea Pheasant; Ladybird. 
Sedge Warbler. Irish Nightingale ;| Widgeon. Whistler. 
Sallypicker. Smew. White-nun; Magpie Diver. 
Great Tit. Blackeap ; Oxeye. Red-throated Diver. Galrush. 
Blue Tit. Tozmtit. Common Guillemot. Murre. 
Hedgesparrow. Reefonge (?) Great Northern Diver. Imber. 
Hooded Crow. Scald Crow; Praheen| Green Cormorant. Shag. 
‘Cark (or ‘“ Hen Crow,” from its} Sandwich Tern. Big Skirr. 
plunder of eggs). Arctic and Common Terns. Skirr. 
Greenfinch. Green Linnet. Great Black-backed Gull. Parson 
Corn Bunting. Bush Lark. | Gull. 
Black-beaded Bunting. Blackcap. | Storm Petrel. Martensil. 
I have compiled this list from Mr. Watters’ little work on the 
‘Birds of Ireland,’ published in 1853, but long since out of print. 
My own observation leads me to believe that the names which 
il contains are still common in Ireland.—CHaRLEs W. BENSON 
(Rathmines School, Dublin). 
Worcestershire.—The following are a few of the local names for 
birds in Worcestershire :— 
Whitethroat. Hazeck. Green Woodpecker: Stock-eikle. 
Hedgesparrow. ‘The same. Long-tailed Tit. Hedge-mumnruffin. 
Flycatcher. Spait. Willow Warbler. Grass-mumruffin. 
Chaffinch. Pie-finch. Whinchat. Furzechat. 
As | have not yet seen Worcestershire represented in the lists 
that have lately appeared in ‘The Zoologist, I venture to hope 
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