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considered the Cranes and Eails the typical forms. Whether the 

 Bustards and Seriema should be also added seemed questionable ; 

 but the former connect it with the Charadriomorpile and the 

 latter with the Aetomorph^. 



GEEFALCON", see Gyrfalcon. 



GERYGONE, Gould's name, now used as English, for a genus 

 of uncertain position, generally placed among the Muscicapida} 

 (Flycatcher), but shearing great resemblance to some Sylviidse 

 (Warbler), and especially to the Hypolais-gronp. Six species were 

 recognized by him as inhabiting Australia, and nearly two dozen 

 more, from the Philippines, Borneo, New Guinea, Norfolk Island, 

 New Zealand, and other islands, have been referred to this genus, 

 most of which Dr. Sharpe has since separated (Notes Leyd. Mxis. 

 1879, p. 29) under the name of Pseudogerygone. The Australian 

 and New-Zealand forms are inconspicuous little birds, building a 

 pensile domed nest, and are among the commonest foster-parents of 

 the Cuckows of their respective countries (//. North, Descr. Cat. 

 Nests & Eggs of B. Austrcd. pp. 97-100 ; Buller, B. New Zeal ed. 2, 

 i. pp. 45-48). " 



GIER-EAGLE (Dutch Geier, Vulture), the rendering by English 

 translators of the Bible of the Hebrew Eacham (Levit. xi. 18; 

 Deut. xiv. 17), said by Canon Tristram to be the equivalent of the 

 Arabic Rachnah, the vernacular name of the Egyptian Vulture, 

 Nephron percnopteriis. 



GILLY-HOWLET, a Scottish nickname for the Barn- Owl, 

 Akico flammeus, "Gilly" being an abbreviation of Gillian ( = Juliana), 

 comparable with Jack-DAW, Mag-PiE, Robin-REDBREAST, Tom-TiT, 

 and others. 



GLASOOGJE ( = Glass-eye), the name given by the inhabitants 

 of the Cape Colony to the common species of Zosterops, Z. capensis, 

 found in that country (Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 116); but the 



GLASS-EYE of Jamaica is a Thrush, Turdus jamaicensis (see 

 Gosse, B. Jamaica, p. 142). In the former case the name is given 

 from the ring of white feathers surrounding the eye, in the latter 

 from the colom- of the iris. 



GLEAD or GLED (A.S. Glida; Sw. Glada), an old EngHsh 

 name not wholly obsolete for the Kite, referring to its gliding 

 flight. 



GNAT, the same as Knot,^ according to Sir Thomas Browne 



^ In this connexion Mr. Charles Swainson {Prov. Names Br. B. p. 194) un- 

 happily quotes the line 



"The little Gnat-snap, worthy princes' boords," 

 to be found in the translation by Josuah Sylvester, who died in 1618 { Works, ed. 



