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song of the cock, and the bright yellow wings of both sexes, 
quickly attract the notice of even the unobservant. The nest is a 
beautifully neat structure, often placed at no great height from the 
ground, but generally so well hidden by the leafy bough on which 
it is built as not to be easily found, until, the young being hatched, 
the constant visits of the parents reveal its site. When the broods 
leave the nest they move into the more open country, and fre- 
quenting pastures, commons, heaths, and downs, assemble in large 
flocks towards the end of summer. Eastward of the range of 
the present species its place is taken by its congener C. caniceps, 
which is easily recognized by wanting the black hood and white 
ear-coverts of our own bird. Its home seems to be in Central Asia, 
but it moves southward in winter, being common at that season in 
Cashmere, and it is not unfrequently brought for sale to Calcutta. 
The position of the genus Carduelis in the Family Fringillide 
(FINCH) is not very clear. Structurally it would seem to have 
some relation to Chrysomitris (SISKIN), though the members of the 
two groups have very different habits, and perhaps its nearest kin- 
ship lies with Coccothraustes (HAWFINCH). 
GOLDING, see GAULDING. 
GOM-PAAUW (Gum-Peafowl) the colonial name for Otis 
cristata or kori, the largest species of BusTarpD inhabiting South 
Africa (Layard, B. S. Africa, p. 283), so called because it is 
believed to feed largely on the gum of the Mimosa-bushes growing 
on the plains which it affects. 
600 EY, (prov. Engl. fore Supid or awkure rd person), a saiders' name for en AlbaTros. 
GOOSANDER, or, as formerly spelt,t| GOSSANDER, probably 
from old Norsk Gas (A.S. Gés) and @nd, pl. Andir (Dan. And), 
meaning therefore “ Goose-Duck,” the ordinary name of the largest 
species of Mergus (MERGANSER), apparently applied first in Lincoln- 
shire, where so many words of Scandinavian origin have lingered ; 
_ but now in general use. 
GOOSE (A.S. Gs), the general English name for a considerable 
number of birds, belonging to the Family Anatide of modern 
ornithologists, which are mostly larger than Ducks and less than 
- Swans. ‘Technically the word Goose is reserved for the female, the 
male being called GANDER, while the young is a Gosling. 
The most important species of Goose, and the type of the genus 
Anser, is undoubtedly that which is the origin of our well-known 
domestic race, the Anser ferus or A. cinereus of most naturalists, 
commonly called in English the Grey or Grey Lag? Goose, a bird 
1 Drayton (1622) Polyolbion, Song xxv. ; Merrett (1667) Pinaz, p. 184. 
2 The meaning and derivation of this word Zag had long been a puzzle until 
Prof. Skeat suggested (Jbis, 1870, p. 301) that it signified late, last, or slow, 
