382 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
fossil state, and which stretches as far back as the age of the 
Silurian rocks. And it is one of about one hundred existing 
species of a few families of the Brachiopoda, a class of which 
upwards of 1800 species are known to geologists, and of which 
by far the greater portion are found in rocks which present to us 
almost the earliest evidence of life on our planet. I am not 
aware that any other specimen than that taken by Forbes has 
been obtained on the coasts of the Isle of Man. 
OCCASIONAL NOTES. 
Cornish Names oF Witp AnimaLs.— Apropos of the note (p. 382) on 
the former existence of the Bear and Wolf in Cornwall, I give the following 
list of Cornish names for various wild animals, collected from the Glossaries 
of Borlase, Polwhele, and others:—Wolf, PBlaidth; Bear, Arth; Fox, 
Lawarn; Wild Boar, Bora; Badger, Brath-kye; Otter, Towan; Wild Cat, 
Koitgath (i.e. Wood-cat); Stag, Caran; Fallow-deer, Da; Buck, Kidwich ; 
Roe-deer, Yoreh; Buck or Goat, Byk, Bocca, Boc; Weasel, Louennan, 
Codnagqwidr (i.e. White-neck); Ferret, Yengen; Fitchew, Milgy; Hare, 
Scovarnoeg (i.e. Long-eared); Rabbit, Kynin (Coney). Polwhele says of 
the Bear (Book i., p. 158) that it continued in the North of England as 
late as the eighth century; in the South as late as the Conquest.—J. E. 
Hartinc. 
RED-DEER FORMERLY IN Co. Donecat.—In Thompson's ‘ Natural 
History of Ireland’ (vol. iv. p. 31), Gough's edition of Camden’s ‘ Britannia’ 
is quoted as authority for the existence of the Red-deer in abundance on the 
mountains adjacent to Lough Esk, Co. Donegal. This statement is not to 
be found in the original work of Camden, and is no doubt due to his editor 
of 1789. From information lately received from my friend the Very Rev. 
Dean Gwynn, I learn that, when the grandfather of the late Mr. Stewart, 
of Ards, came to reside there, in 1782, the people there remembered when 
Red-deer were frequent about Ards. ‘This is a confirmation of Gough's 
record. In all probability at that period the Red-deer traversed the whole 
extent of mountain country which lies between these two places, Ards being 
about thirty-five miles due north of Lough Esk.—H. Cuicurster Harr, 
SQUIRREL DESCENDING TO FEED WITH Pouirry.—A neighbour of mine, 
whose cottage is thickly surrounded with trees, observed a Squirrel, during 
the severe weather of winter, occasionally stealing food from the troughs 
set out for the poultry. At first it caused great commotion among the 
