Fordham: Yorkshire Coleoptera in 1915. 207 
+ Helophorus mulsanti Rye. Saltend Common. T.S. (See 
The Naturalist 1915, December, p. 403). 
Helophorus arvernicus Muls. Malham. J.W.C. *64. 
Cercyon depressus Steph. Bridlington, 23-5-09. W.E.5. 
*61. The specimen on which this species was added 
to the Yorkshire list was taken to the north of Filey in 
sheep dung on the cliffs towards Gristhorpe and therefore 
in V.C. 62. (See The Naturalist, 1915, May, p. 165). It 
was recorded by Bold for Northumberland but doubted 
by Canon Fowler (Col. Brit. Isles, Vol. I., p. 256), as 
its other stations are all in the south. 
Cercyon hemorrhous Gyll. Frizinghall and Keighley. F. 
Rhodes. *63. 
+Cercyon lugubris Pk. Shirley Pool, Askern. October, 191i. 
WE. S: 
+Cercyon granarius Er. Skipwith in fungus, June, I9T14. 
We Ji 
Cercyon minutus F. Bubwith on bones. W. J. F. *61. 
Aleochara algarum Fauv. Bridlington, 23-5-1909. W.E.5. 
sap 
(To be continued). 
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The Dialect of Hackness (North East Yorkshire) with original specimen, 
andaword list. By @. H. Cowling. Cambridge University Press, 195 pp. 
9s. net. This Grammar ‘is an attempt to investigate a modern Yorkshire 
dialect on a scientific plan.’ The basis for investigation has been the 
Yorkshire dialect of the fourteenth century, not old English, ‘ for in spite 
of many modern dialect grammarians, no Northern English dialect is 
derived from old West Saxon.’ The author gives examples of many 
old-world local dialects which he consulted, and he offers many interesting 
instances of local sound-changes, and no doubt the phonology will be of 
value to all who are interested in the development of the English language. 
The dialect on the Wolds and in the vales of north-eastern and eastern 
Yorkshire is frosty but kindly. Frosty in its naked directness. Frosty in 
its extreme sobriety of expression. Frosty too, its hatred of diminutives. 
The volume is a remarkable and scholarly production, and will be of 
value for all time. Its perusal is most interesting, though the frequent 
use of the phonetic symbols is confusing until they are mastered. There 
are samples of Hackness dialect, including a good story of the Hare and 
the Prickly-backed Urchin. The hare had called t’ prickly-backt urchin 
‘bandy legs,’ so the latter challenged the hare to a race along the furrows 
in a ‘tonnep-field.’ The urchin put his ‘ missis ’ at one end of the furrow, 
and apparently started to run, with the hare, at the other. By the time 
the hare reached the far end the ‘ missis’ jumped up and ‘ malled oot.’ 
“Here I is.’ So the hare raced back and then found Mr. Urchin jump 
up with ‘ Here I is.’ And the process went on until the hare died of 
exhaustion, it not having occurred to the hare that there were two urchins. 
‘T’ moral o’ this tale is fost, at neabody owt tae think hissen a better 
chap nor other fowk, and mak fun on ‘em. And second, at men owt tea 
pick wives like theirsens, wives at can help ’em, and be some use tiv ‘em. 
Them at’s urchins mun pick an urchin for a wife, and not a fond doe 
rabbit, nor a bitin’ rezzil.’ 
1916 June 1. 
