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Whale. 



miol mop (2), ■pAlAin (0), blex) (12), t)loAC(l2), pcA|\n, 

 mA5Ap(l) (older words). 



There are several kinds of whales, as well as dolphins 

 in Irish waters (see Porpoise), and these are, as far as I 

 know, not discriminated from one another in Irish. 



Wolf. 



m^'opAt) -All<M"6 (2), p^eltu (11), inc\ccipe (6), cpi^^n (12), 

 bf\e6(12), tnj^T)pA aIIca (7), pit)ex\6 (6), p^el, cu All^it) (2) 

 (older terms). 



It IS astonishing that such a number of words should 

 exist for Wolf, but if, as I suggested, the term tn<.\'otAA'6 

 was exclusively applied to the small watch-dog, two of the 

 words given might be eliminated as incorrect. The only 

 other somewhat wolf-like creature that inhabited Ireland 

 formerly was the Hyaena. It became extinct probably 

 long before the Reindeer and Irish Elk, and it is unlikely 

 that an Irish word for this animal should exist. 



REFERENCES TO LITERATURE CITED. 



1. Alston, C. H. — A list of the Gaelic names of British Mammals. 



Scottish Naturalist, 1913, pp. 145-153. 



2. MacNeill, John. — Manuscript list of the Irish names of Mammals. 



3. CoLGAN, N. — Manuscript list of the Irish names of animals used in 



the West of Ireland. 



4. Keogh, John. — Zoologia medicinalis hibernica, Dublin, 1739. 



5. Wilde, W. — On the animal remains belonging to the Academy. Proc. 



R.I. A., vii., i860, pp. 181 -21 1. 



6. O'Reilly, Edward. — Irish Dictionary, new edition. Dublin, 1877. 



7. DiNNEEN, Rev. Patrick S. — ^Irish Dictionary. Dublin, 1904. 



8. Forbes, A. R. — Gaelic names of beasts, birds, &c. Edinburgh, 1905. 



9. Hogan, Rev. E. — History of the Irish Wolf-dog. Dublin, 1897. 

 IQ. O'Hanlon, Rev. Canon. — History of Queen's County, Vol. i. (Irish 



names of animals, p. 39). 



11. Joyce, P. W. — The origin and history of Irish names of places. 



Dublin, 1869. 



12. Meyer, Kuno. — Contributions to Irish Lexicography. A-Dn. Vol. i. 



Halle, 1906-7. 



13. Stokes, W. — Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore. Oxford, 



1890. 



14. Stokes, W. — The tripartite life of Patrick. London, 1887. 

 National Museum, Dublin. 



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