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Qannet. — English name for this bird, which occurs also in Europe. It must 

 be the "great white foules with red bils and red legs" of Hore in 1536, 

 and " a great white foule called by some a Gaunt " of Haie in 1583. 

 Called by the French Margnulr. 



Gaspereau, or Gasparot. — Name of a common salt-water fish of Acadia (also 

 called Alewife), first used, so far as I can find, by Denys in Ï672. No- 

 where can I find any clue to its origin. It seems not to be Indian. 



Gays. — See Beche-bois. 



Geay. — French word for Jay. Used by Descarbot, probably for the Blue-Jay, 

 which is called Jay now by the Acadians (fide A. C. Smith), and Geal 

 by the Canadian French (fide C. E. Dionne^. See also under Bechc- 

 bois. , 



Gelinote. — French name of a game bird of France, applied by Champlain to 

 one of the Partridges in America. Champlain's list of 1632 seems to 

 show he applied it to the Ruffed Grouse, for his black partridge must 

 have been the Canada or Spruce Partridge, and his white kind the 

 Ptarmigan. Father Le Jeune uses it in the same way, though the word 

 Is translated wrongly as Hazel Hens in Thwaites' edition. The Cana- 

 dian French apply GcUnollr du Canada to the Ruffed Grouse, according 

 to Professor Dionne, who al.so says the Ptarmigan is called Perdrix 

 blanche, and the Spruce Partridge Perdrix de tiavanne. 



Gerfaut. — French name for the Gerfalcon of Europe, transferred by Cham- 

 plain (1632) to an American species, which was no doubt the American 

 Gerfalcon. 



Germon. — French name for the Bonito, and also for the Daulphin, the Cet- 

 acean. It is mentioned by Dieréville as caught on the line at sea, and 

 his description leaves no question that he refers to the Bonito. His 

 comparison of the fish as rivalling the salmon in goodness finds a 

 parallel in modern statements (compare Fisheries and Fishery Indus- 

 tries of the United States, Section I, 317). 



Gla. — See Chesne. 



Goberge. — A French name, of doubtful origin according to Littré, for the 

 Haddock, which ranges along the coasts of both Europe and America. 

 Used first by Denys, who gives also its alternative name Poisson de 

 ^aint Pierre. The Acadians call it by the English name. 



Gode, or Godez. — Name applied by Cartier as Godez in 1534 to a bird which 

 he found associated with the Great Auk, and which on that account 

 would probably have been either the Razor-billed Auk or the Murre. 

 Denys speaks of it, {(J ode,), as a bird which flies swiftly as an arrow, 

 black and white in its plumage; this might fit either of the above men- 

 tioned birds; but as Denys calls the Murre by another name. Poule de 

 Mer, his Gode is thus located by exclusion as the Razor-billed Auk, 

 and all the data we possess confirm this identification. Denys' de- 

 scription of the bird, by the way, is no doubt the origin of the defini- 

 tion for godé from Fleming and Tibbins' Dictionary, cited by Baxter, 

 78, while its absence from most other dictionaries is probably an evi- 



