324 WATT: ANIMAL PLACE-NAMES. 
But the following cases have created especial interest: :— Professor 
Ewart, of Edinburgh, has bred a cross between a male Burchell’s 
Zebra and a mare pony, of the Isle of Rum breed, half wild, lent 
for the experiment by Lord Arthur Cecil. The pony was jet black ; 
the foal resulting, excepting over the hind quarters, had as many 
stripes as the Zebra sire ; the stripes being fawn colour, with back- 
ground nearly black. In form it closely resembled a well-bred foal. 
The pony was expected the next season to have a foal, by Professor 
Ewart’s Arab horse, Benazrek. 
As another interesting case of a somewhat similar kind, Lord 
Morton has succeeded in getting a cross between a male Quagga 
and a nearly pure-bred Arab mare. 
Erratum.—Since the first portion of this article was printed off, Mr. ise 
Cordeaux has written, in respect of his being reported to say, on page 3 
that ‘he = seen within the last few months the very rare Ph Stee 
viridanus in Lincolnshire, the variety ?. superciliosa in Yorkshire, and 
another eee proregulus has been recorded for Norfolk.’ What he did say 
was that examples of Ph gn oe superciliosus had occurred recently in 
bier P. viridanus, the first British example, in North-east ee 
d P. proregilus, also the nes British PCE in Norfolk. The word 
Pas ety’ was never used by him.--Ep. ‘NA 
NOTE—MAMMALIA. 
Animal Place-Names.—Proofs of the existence adi animals now extinct, 
gathered from place-names, such as those ppiested,s in your notice beige 206, 
p. 282) of Mr. A te gwo se *Book of C Reon are not so unusual as the 
writer seems to infer. genta a2 “stad from this side of the Border, and it wou'd 
not be difficult ae increase the 
Wild Cat. —Craigencat in ee Chat 
(Ben Cruachan)=corrie or hollow of the cat ; pudeaapet (Aberdecnbire)= = field 
of the cat; Alwhat Hill (Aymbifel= =hill of agate se ’s cliff or rock ; and Wul-cat 
Brae (Mere ickibite) = hill or slope of the wild c 
the Wolf. i “aes 1 as Helhce about i of last century > 
Cnoc-a-m (pronounced vadee) (Ross eae g oF = wolf; Polmadie 
(Lanarkshire and Ayrshire) =poo the wolf ; I ) a ee 
rkshi Ts lo olf; Loch Maddy w 
Maddie (Sutherland)=loch of the wolf; and Drummoddie (Wigtonshire) = i 
of the wolf. Our Norse name Ulva=Wolf’s island—is thus not quite alike wit! 
the Coniston one. 
Wild _ Boar.— Bridge of Turk ies fen Tare bridge of the hog Gartw 
(L sure = the hog; Ben Turc=hill of the hog, “cf. An Tor 
hill known as the Boar of Haden: Carntorcy (Perthshire) = cain of t i 
he: Lynturk (Aberdeenshire) = pool of the pos: The other sex is represente 
uch names hi wi Balmucbie 
Se D f 
wd steeseod lace o ae wine; Kin k (Aberdeenshire) =sow s h f 
na-muc (A rgy hie al cg jeuews s grey with which compare the name # 
the larger island called Muc 
The wide cooageemoin of ‘aaie names certainly seems a form oe gene of sa 
existence of the animals named.—HucH Boyp Watt, 3, V a Oe 
Glasgow, 14th Spceentes 1897. ee 
Naturalist: 
