PROVINCIAL NAMES OF BRITISH ANIMALS.
Ireland. — It may interest your readers to glance through the annexed list of names by which our familiar birds are known in Ireland:—
Peregrine Falcon. Blue Hawk.
Kestrel. Windhover.
Common Buzzard. Kite; Goshawk.
Marsh Harrier. Kite; Brown Hawk.
Short-eared Owl. Woodcock Owl.
Water Ouzel. Dipper; Kingfisher; River Pie.
Missel Thrush. Jay; Big Felt.
Redwing. Felt.
Fieldfare. Blue Felt.
Ring Ouzel. Cowboy; Mountain Stare.
Wheatear. Stoneychat.
Stonechat. Blackcap.
Willow Warbler. Sallypicker; Golden Wren.
Chiffchaff. Sallypicker.
Sedge Warbler. Irish Nightingale; Sallypicker.
Great Tit. Blackcap; Oxeye.
Blue Tit. Tomtit.
Hedgesparrow. Reefouge (?)
Hooded Crow. Scald Crow; Praheen Cark (or "Hen Crow," from its plunder of eggs).
Greenfinch. Green Linnet.
Corn Bunting. Bush Lark.
Black-headed Bunting. Blackcap.
Meadow Pipit. Titlark.
Rock Pipit. Rock Lark.
Creeper. Woodpecker.
Ring Dove. Woodquest.
Common Heron. Crane.
Curlew. Whaup.
Whimbrel. Maybird.
Common Snipe. Heather-bleat.
Redshank. Red-legged Snipe.
Common Sandpiper. Sand Lark.
Dunlin. Sea Snipe; Sea Lark.
Turnstone. Sea Lark.
Lapwing. Phillipene.
Bald Coot. Black Diver.
Brent Goose. Barnacle.
Shieldrake. Burrow Duck.
Pintail. Sea Pheasant; Ladybird.
Widgeon. Whistler.
Smew. White-nun; Magpie Diver.
Red-throated Diver. Galrush.
Common Guillemot. Murre.
Great Northern Diver. Imber.
Green Cormorant. Shag.
Sandwich Tern. Big Skirr.
Arctic and Common Terns. Skirr.
Great Black-backed Gull. Parson Gull.
Storm Petrel. Martensil.
I have compiled this list from Mr. Watters' little work on the ' Birds of Ireland,' published in 1853, but long since out of print. My own observation leads me to believe that the names which it contains are still common in Ireland. — Charles W. Benson (Rathmines School, Dublin).
Worcestershire. — The following are a few of the local names for birds in Worcestershire:—
Whitethroat. Hazeck.
Hedgesparrow. The same.
Flycatcher. Spait.
Chaffinch. Pie-finch.
Green Woodpecker. Stock-eikle.
Long-tailed Tit. Hedge-mumruffin.
Willow Warbler. Grass-mumruffin.
Whinchat. Furzechat.
As 1 have not yet seen Worcestershire represented in the lists
that have lately appeared in 'The Zoologist,' I venture to hope
