that two-thirds of the zoological terms contained in them are absolutely wrong. If a native is appealed to he probably gives some provincial term, which is merely local, and current only in his own immediate district. The scientific writers are often, as regards popular names, equally incorrect, especially in France; and no well-educated countryman would, for instance, recognize for an instant many of those given by Cuvier, Temminck, or even Buffon. Under these circumstances it could scarcely be expected that Mr. Swainson should be immaculate in this respect, but he has, apparently, been careful to insert as few mistakes as possible. When in doubt he omits the foreign name of a bird altogether, and so avoids the difficulty. Thus, in France the three birds the missel-thrush, fieldfare, and redwing, are all known under the generic name of "grive," and furnish that delectable dish which sometimes strikes the autumn tourist as being so delicious. The same thing occurs in Germany, where the same birds are known as "Krammetsvögel," and also looked upon as a great delicacy. That this little explanation should be wanting in Mr. Swainson's book is neither surprising nor in any way to be deprecated. He merely undertook to give the English provincial names and folk-lore of birds, and this task he has executed with the most complete success, and with rare ability and industry.

St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, to which we have lately drawn attention, and where Katharine, daughter of William Lincoln, occurs as baptized April 17, 1574. The first immigrant of the name in America landed in 1637, aged eighteen. The posthumous address to the Society by its late president, Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, LL.D., forms a fit conclusion to a series of able addresses delivered from the chair by the same distinguished officebearer, whose last written words bear reference to the life in the "Light of Eternity."

THE Société des Traditions Populaires (Musée d'Ethnographie, Trocadéro, Paris), during the course of 1887, its second year of existence, hopes to do much more than it has yet done in the way of publishing varied and interesting collections of folk-lore. It is assured of the help of new and able contributors, as well as of the continued support of tried friends. Looking at the table of brace notes from Asia Minor, Italy, Russia, Poland, and contents of the first year's issues, we see that they emServia, as well as from Corsica, Algeria, and all parts of the mainland of France. We cannot but hope that the promoters of this useful work will be adequately supported by students of folk-lore abroad and at home.

MR. W. A. CLOUSTON, of 233, Cambridge Street, Glaswith his Book of Sindibád,'A Group of Eastern gow, announces for publication by subscription, uniform Romances and Stories.' The edition will be limited to 300 copies.

Transcript of the Register of Baptisms of Muthill, Perthshire, 1697-1847. By the Rev. A. W. Cornelius Hallen, M.A. (Printed for Subscribers.) THIS interesting record of Episcopalian ministrations commences at a period of considerable religious and MR. A. W. TUER writes :-" Readers of N. & Q.' will political dissension in Scotland. It contains the names regret to hear of the death, on the 22nd inst., in his of persons of all ranks in society, from the peer to the fifty-eighth year, of an old and valued contributor to peasant. It tells of difficulties in the performance of its pages, Mr. Edmund Waterton, of Deeping Waterton purely religious rites such as the present generation Hall, Lincolnshire. It was hoped that a winter spent may find it hard to believe, unless well read in the his- abroad would have restored Mr. Waterton's strength; tory of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Those but on his return home it was seen that he was failing. who are familiar with the lives of Bishop Low and of Physically a fine man, and the beau-idéal of an English John Skinner of Longside will find in the facts recorded country gentleman, Mr. Waterton was also a learned in the Muthill registers nothing at all strange to them; antiquary and a staunch friend. Above all, he was a but to the ordinary Southron some of the pages may good man." Mr. Waterton was in communication with almost read like a romance. Mr. Hallen is doing a goodN. & Q.' up to the period of his death. Two contribuwork for Scotland as well as for England, and we can tions appear in the present number. only hope that his work will be adequately appreciated in both countries. We do not understand why Mr. Hallen almost always prints "Græme" for Grame in the entries of the Garvock and Balgowan families. If following the MS. he should have appended sic to such a detestable misspelling. The strange Christian name "Mart," p. 29, is surely due simply to the absence of a mark of contraction for Margaret.

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