GOBY— GURNARD 365 



buUycods, byt^shki (Russian) ; Caboche (A. S.), cabot fish, carling, 

 club bock, cobbo, cock-paddle, cod-pole, comper, corbeau, cull, cun- 

 tack, cur (East); Doulie, dumphead; Fatherlasher ; Groundling, 

 grundling (slender), gundie ; Hardhead, hornbeam, hush, hush- 

 baggaty or paddle; Jura sucker; Lasher, luckyproach, lump-fish 

 or sucker, lyre, lyree ; Meermaid, miller's or milner's thumb 

 thume or topknot (?), mole (rock), muUygranoe ; Noble, noggle- 

 head, Norwegian haddock ; Paddle, paddle-cock, padle, pluck, 

 plucober, poacher, pogge, polewig, poUy bait, puU-cronack ; Rock 

 goby or fish ; Sea-cock gudgeon owl poacher raven or scorpion ; 

 Toad-devil, tomcull, tommylogge, etc. 



An ally of this fish is the dragon et or lyra. This curious httle 

 fish is rarely landed, the last reported catch being in December 

 1901 at Stromness. This specimen was the gemmeous, the other 

 kind is termed the sordid. The dragonet has large dragon-fly- 

 like wings. The name lyra or lyre is derived from the great 

 length of the first fin on the back. It runs from eight to twelve 

 inches. The Welsh call it Pentarw, also Bawd-y-melmydd. 



GUDGEON. — Bronag, bronnag; Guda, gudda, guisdean. 

 Gobie, gogion, googon ; Lob-loache. 

 From gobis (Lat.) and gougon (Fr.). 



GUINIAD. — PoUag, poUag-seirc, pollan ; Tulag. 



Cunn ; Denneck ; EUeck (red) ; Fresh-water herring ; Gwyniad ; 

 Hick, illeck (red) ; Juvangis ; Pollac, pollack, pollan, pooan, 

 powan ^ Schelly, skelly, soldier ; Vendace ; White-pate. 



From "guin or gw^yn," white, i.e., white fish. 



This fish is said to be found only in Loch Lomond and Loch- 

 maben in Scotland, and Lough Neagh in Ireland. 



GUNNEL.— Deilean. 



Barber-eel, bib, bib-fish, blenny, blons, bluids, borrbut, bothock, 

 brassie, brazier (Ir.), bulgard, butter-fish ; Clavin, clubbock, cod- 

 lick, codling, codlocks, crow-fish, cussells ; Deillion, dornicle ; Eel- 

 pout ; Flutterick (spotted) ; Garpike, greenbone, guffer ; Hen-fish, 

 hungell, hurkie ; Jackie doronis ; Kleg ; Large eyes, leaf, lug ; 

 Mailed ; Nine eyes ; Pouter ; Sea needle, shan, smeltie, smooth 

 shan (blenny), spotted blenny, stonechecker, stone-fish, swar-fish, 

 swordick ; Thorny, tompot ; Whiting-pout. 



This fish derives its name " butter-fish " from its extreme 

 slipperiness. 



GURNARD or GURNET. — Ceann-troman, cnodan, cnudan, 

 crodan, croitean, crotan, crottan, crudan, crunan ; Gabharag, 

 goirn, goirnead. 



Balleerie, bridegroom, bullhead ; Captain, chanticleer, crointer, 

 croonack, crooner, croonyal, cuckoo ; Dennick, dragonet (yellow), 

 dusky skulpin ; EUeck, ellick ; Gaberick, game-fish, garnet, gaskin, 



