NAMES OF THE G ANNEX 19 



See Forrest's 

 "Fauna of North 



Gwydd Lygadlon = clear-eyed 



Goose, Welsh 

 Gwylan Wydd = Gull-Goose, \ Wales," p. 253, and 



Welsh . j Spurrell's Welsh 



Gans, Welsh J Dictionary. 



Hafsula, Icelandic. 



Havsula, Danish. 



Tossefugl, Danish. 



Sillebas, Swedish 1 ,/-. t^ r. ^ .. > 

 (u. K. Sundstrom). 

 Hafssula, Swedish J 



Bergshammar, Swedish 



Suula, Finnish. 



Local Gaelic names (by A. Carmichael^) : — Amhasan : 

 Amhasag : Asan : Sulaire : Ian Ban an Sgadan = the 

 White Bird of the Herring : Guga = the Young Gannet 

 {cf. "Annals, Scottish N. H.," 1905, p. 144): Sulaiche.f 

 Colonel Feilden states, on the authority of Svabo, that 

 the young Gannet with down still on it is called at 

 Myggenoes in Feroe " Ompel,"| a word not in the Danish 

 or Gaelic dictionary, and of which the sense is not clear. 

 Professor Skeat, who has been good enough to assist me, 

 suggests that it may be a variant of the Norwegian 



* As contributed by him to Harvie-Brown and Buckley's " Fauna of the 

 Outer Hebrides " (p. 94). 



I Armstrong's Gaelic Dictionary (1825) has Sulair, s.m., a St. Kildiau 

 bird, pi. sulairean, and sulaireach- " full of Soland goose," ai)|)lical)lc to 

 an island. 



t " Zoologist." 1872, ]\ 3280. 



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