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GnxivER Wren. A Lincolnshire local name for the WEEN ; 

 Hett also gives " Giller Wren," Avhich would be a con- 

 traction. 



GiLLY-HOWLET or GiLLiHowxET : The BAEN-0\\Tj. (Scot- 

 land.) Gilly is thought to be a diminutive of Gillian, a 

 proper name. 



Giggling Curre. A west-coimtrj^ name for the immature 

 GOLDENEYE. (HaAvker.) 



GiRGiRiK. A Cornish name for the PARTRIDGE. Mr. 

 Harting suggests the name is imitative of its note. 



Gladdie : The YELLOW BUNTING. (Devon and Cornwall.) 

 From A. Sax. (7ZafZ(/e= bright. 



Glade, Glead, Gled, Glede : The KITE. The spelling 

 and derivation seem uncertain, but the name in its several 

 forms is an ancient one in this countrs^ Turner (1544) 

 and :\Ierrett (1667) spell it " Glede," while Willughby (1678) 

 has '' Glead " as do various later -oTiters. The derivation 

 is probably from A. Sax. (jlida, from glidan, to glide and move 

 smoothly, this latter happening, however, to be from the 

 same root as the modem " glade " (i.e. an open — hence 

 sunny — part, or grassy passage, in a wood). Glade is from 

 A. Sax. glced, Icel. gladhr, signifjdng something bright, 

 smooth or shining, and being in fact the derivation also of 

 our modem word " glad." Glede (according to Poole) is a 

 Staffordshire provincialism for a red-hot cinder, and he 

 thinks the red colour of the plumage may be the origin of 

 its use for the kite. Such references as : — 



The cruel ire red as any glede. — The Knight's Tale. 



and, 

 His arraor glitteryde as did a glede. — Chevy Chase. 



may, of course, apply to the red Kite, but are equally 

 applicable to the red-hot cinder. 



Both " Gled " and " Glead " were lately still in use 

 for this bird in Lincolnshire ; the latter also in West York- 

 shire and perhaps other districts. " Fork -tailed Glead " 

 is another provincial name, while Gray (" Birds of West 

 Scotland ") gives " Salmon-tailed Gled." 



Glaisean darach. a Gaelic name for the GREENFINCH. 



GLASiAJf. A Gaelic name for the MEADOW-PIPIT and also 

 the ROCK-PIPIT. 



Glas y dorlan. a Welsh name for the KINGFISHER ; lit. 

 " blue (bird) of the river bank." 



GLAUCOUS GULL [No. 4.35]. The name occurs in the 1832 

 edition of Bewdck, and was adopted by Yarrell in his first 



