114 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



GRUNDLING : The RINGED PLOVER. (Lancashire.) Swain- 

 son thinks it equivalent to Groundling. 



GRYPE or GRYFFON. Aldrovandus gives these as names for the 

 GRIFFON-VULTURE. 



GUENOL or GUENBOL. A Cornish name for the COMMON 

 WHITETHROAT. 



GUERNSEY NIGHTINGALE : The BLACKCAP. 



GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE : The RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. 

 (Montagu.) 



GUGA. An Irish name for the GANNET. 



GUILBINN: The CURLEW. (Western Isles of Scotland.) 



From Gaelic guil, wailing, and binn, music. 

 GUILLEMOT. See COMMON GUILLEMOT. 

 GUINEA-BIRD DIVER : The RED-THROATED DIVER. (East 



Riding, Yorkshire.) From its speckled back resembling 



that of a Guinea-fowl. 

 GUIRENAN. A Gaelic name for the BRENT GOOSE. 



GULDEN-HEAD : The PUFFIN. Willughby records it as so 



called in South Wales. 

 GULER : The YELLOW BUNTING. (Norfolk.) From A.Sax 



geolu=yel\ow. 



GULLALLAN. A Northumbrian name for the Skuas. 

 GULLAN. Cornish for a Gull. 

 GULL-BILLED TERN [No. 415]. The name occurs in Montagu 



(Supp. " Orn. Diet."). 



GULL-TEASER : The COMMON TERN. Occurs in Montagu. 

 GUNNER : The GREAT NORTHERN DIVER. 

 GURADNAN. A Cornish name for the WREN. 

 GURFEL: The RAZORBILL. (Provincial.) 

 GUSTARD : The GREAT BUSTARD. (Sibbald.) 

 GUTTER COCK: The WATER-RAIL. (Cornwall.) From its 



frequenting ditches. 



GUTTER TEETAN : The ROCK- PIPIT. (Orkneys.) 

 GWALCH : The SPARROW-HAWK. (North Wales) lit. 



" hawk." 

 GWALCH Y NOS : The NIGHTJAR. (North Wales) lit. " night 



hawk." 

 GWALCH Y PENWEIG. A Welsh name for the RAZORBILL ; 



lit. " herring hawk." 

 GWALCH Y WEILGI. A Welsh name for the OSPREY, signifying 



" sea-hawk." 



