Martin Behem found one of these islands covered with beech-trees, and called it therefore _Fayal_, from the Portuguese word _Faya_, a beech-tree. Another island, abounding in sweet flowers, he called _Flores_, from the Portuguese, _Flor_, a flower. _Terceira_, one of the nine islands forming the group, is said to have been so called, because, in the order of succession, it was the third island discovered (from _Ter_ and _ceira_, a bank). _Graciosa_, as a name, was conferred upon one of peculiar beauty, a sort of paradise. _Pico_ derived its name from its sugar-loaf form. The raven found at Madeira and the Canary Islands is probably also a native of the Azores, and might have suggested the Portuguese name of _Corvo_ for one of the nine. St. Mary, St. Michael, and St. George complete the names of the group, of which St. Michael is the largest and Corvo the smallest. WM. YARRELL. Rider Street. _Scologlandis and Scologi_ (Vol. v., p. 416.).--As these names occur in a Celtic country, we are justified in seeking their explanation in the Celtic language. I therefore write to inform G. J. R. G. that the word _scolog_ is a living word in the Irish language, and that it signifies a _farmer_ or _husbandman_. It is the word used in the Irish Bible at Matt. xxi. 33., "he let it out to _husbandmen_"--tug se do _scologaibh_ ar chios i. I may also mention that the name _Mac Scoloige_ is very common in the co. Fermanagh in Ireland, where it is very generally anglicised _Farmer_, according to a usual practice of the Irish. Thus it is not uncommon even now to find a man known by the name of John or Thomas _Farmer_, whose father or grandfather is John or Thomas Mac Scoloige, the name Mac Scoloige signifying "son of a farmer." The _Scologlandis_, in the documents quoted by G. J. R. G., must therefore have taken their name from the _scologs_ or farmers, by whom they were cultivated, unless we suppose that they were anciently the patrimony of some branch of the family of Mac Scoloige, whose remains are now settled in Fermanagh. In Scotland the word is now usually written _sgalag_, and is explained by Armstrong in his _Gaelic Dictionary_ "a farm servant." And the word does certainly seem to have been used in ancient Irish to denote a _servant_ or menial attendant, although the notion of a _farm_ servant seems to have grown out of its other significations. Thus in a very ancient historical romance (probably as old as the ninth or tenth century), which is preserved in the curious volume called _Leabhar breac_, or _Speckled Book_, in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, the word _scolog_ is used to designate _the servant_ of the Abbot of St. Finbar's, Cork. J. H. T. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.