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upon the lofty cliffs of the Bass Isle " and nowhere else in 

 all Britain." The name Gannet occurs first in Merrett (1667), 

 as " Ganet," and in Pennant as " Gannet." Willughby 

 calls it the " Soland Goose, Anser bassanus." It was 

 formally generally called Solan Goose, and in early days 

 was classed with the Geese, hence its present name Gannet, 

 i.e. Little Goose. This latter name however is of great 

 antiquity ; it is the A.Sax. ganot, the plural " ganotes " 

 occurring in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The name is 

 sometimes met with provincially as " Gant." A valuable 

 article on the history of this species, by Cunningham, will 

 be found in the " Ibis " for 1866 (pp. 1-23). 



GANSER or GAMBO GOOSE : The Egyptian Goose. (Bewick.) , 



GARAN. A Cornish name for the CRANE. 



GARAN HWYAD. A Welsh name for the MALLARD. 



GARDEN FAUVET or FAUVETTE : The GARDEN- WARBLER. 

 Given in Macgillivray. 



GARDENIAN HERON. The immature NIGHT-HERON is described 

 under this name in Pennant's " Arctic Zoology " (n, No. 355), 

 and also in Latham, Montagu, etc. It was the Ardea 

 gardeni of Gmelin. 



GARDEN OUZEL: The BLACKBIRD. 



GARDEN THRUSH: The BLACKBIRD ; also the SONG- 

 THRUSH. 



GARDEN -WARBLER [No. 145]. This name, which appears 

 in the 1832 edition of Bewick, seems to have been derived 

 from Gmelin's name Sylvia hortensis, which, however, had 

 been wrongly applied to this species, being properly the 

 ORPHEAN WARBLER. The Garden-Warbler is the 

 Fauvette of old English authors. 



GARDEN WHITETHROAT: The GARDEN- WARBLER. 



GARE-FOWL or GAIR-FOWL : The GREAT AUK. This name 

 has been made familiar by its adoption by the late Prof. 

 Newton, who preferred the name to that of GREAT AUK 

 (a name first applied to the species by Pennant). Gare-fowl 

 is almost undoubtedly derived from the Icel. Geirfugl. 

 Newton however prefers to derive it from the Hebridean or 

 Gaelic name, which is Gearbhul or Gearrbhul, meaning 

 " the strong stout bird with the spot." Sibbald mentions 

 the species as " the bird called Gare." Martin (" Voyage to 

 St. Kilda ") spells it " Gairfowl." 



GARGANEY [No. 292]. The name occurs in Willughby (1678) 

 who derives it from Gesner, and also calls it the Summer 

 Teal, which Newton considers the colloquial name for the 



