430 . THE ZOOLOGIST. 
the least fifteen knots an hour. To what distance this movement 
extended to the south-south-west or from the north-north-east can- 
not even be conjectured. The day was dull, and the birds varied in 
height from near the surface to about twenty feet above the water. 
The concluding sentence in my diary runs :—‘ There being very little 
wind, the birds used their wings more than I have seen Shearwaters 
do before, but still from time to time they would make use of the side 
or ‘shear’ motion, showing alternately the dark upper and white 
under sides of their bodies.’ — H. B. Bootn (Ben Rhydding, York- 
shire). 
Old Local Bird Names.—In a well-used copy of Montagu’s ‘ Orni- 
thological Dictionary’ of 1802 I found (in manuscript notes) the 
following local names for birds, some of which may interest readers of 
‘The Zoologist.’ This copy had been for many years the one treasured 
book of an old Bradford worthy, now dead some twenty years. In his 
time he had walked many thousands of miles with his gun for the 
purpose of obtaining birds to set up as ‘‘specimens.” Although the 
‘specimens’ were dispersed, his descendants kept this work in 
memory of their forbear, and, thinking that it might contain some 
local notes, I borrowed the book. The only notes it contained, how- 
ever, were made by a former owner, and were written in a clear 
scholarly style. They are at the least fifty years old, and are probably 
nearer one hundred years old, and, as they give various localities, no 
doubt the author of them had travelled about. It should be borne in 
mind, however, that the object of the annotator appears to have been 
entirely to include addztional local names of species to those given by 
Montagu, as not another manuscript note of any kind is in the 
book. The notes are given exactly as they appear after the following 
species :— 
Mistle-Thrush = Greybird (Nth. Pembrokeshire), Sprite, Thrice- 
cock, Storm-cock, Ter-cock (provincial). 
Wheatear = Cooper (Sth. Pembrokeshire). 
Wren = Crackie (Nth. Devon), Cutty Wren (Sth. Pembroke- 
shire). 
Blue Titmouse = Blispicker (North Devon). 
Long-tailed Titmouse (vide Lesser Pettychaps) =: Featherpoke 
(Notts. and neighbourhood). 
Chifichaff = Lesser Pettychaps (provincial), Feather-poke (Cambs.). » 
Yellowhammer = Gladdie (Nth. Devon). 
Common Bunting = Gladdie (provincial). 
Chaffinch = Daffinch, 
