116 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



GWYLAN BENWEN : The KITTIWAKE. (North Wales) lit. 



" white-headed gull." 

 GWYLANFRECH : The POMATORHINE SKUA. (North Wales) 



lit. " spotted gull." 

 GWYLAN GEFNDDU FAWR : The GREAT BLACK- BACKED 



GULL. (North Wales) lit. the same. 

 GWYLAN GEFNDDU LEIAF : The LESSER BLACK-BACKED 



GULL. (North Wales) lit. the same. 

 GWYLAN GYFFREDIN : The COMMON GULL. (North Wales) 



lit. " common gull." 

 GWYLAN GYNFFON HIR : The ARCTIC SKUA. (North W T ales) 



lit. " long-tailed gull." 

 GWYLAN MANAW : The MANX SHEARWATER. (North 



Wales) lit. " Manx Gull." 



GWYLAN WYDD : The GANNET. (North Wales) lit. " gull- 

 goose." 

 GWYLAN Y PENWEIG : The HERRING-GULL. (North Wales) 



lit. " herring gull." 

 GWYLAN Y WEILGI : The STORM-PETREL. (North Wales) 



lit, " ocean gull." 

 GWYLOG : The COMMON GUILLEMOT. (North Wales) lit. 



" guillemot." 

 GYLFINBRAFF. A Welsh name for the HAWFINCH. 



GYLFINGROES (Y). A Welsh name for the COMMON CROSS- 

 BILL ; lit. " the crossbill." 



GYLFINHIR. A Welsh name for the COMMON CURLEW; 

 lit. " long-bill." 



GYP STARLING, GYP STARNILL, GYP, or GYPEY : The STARLING. 

 (Yorkshire.) 



GYR-FALCON [No. 230]. Anciently often called the Ger- 

 Falcon, and erroneously Jer-Falcon. The name properly 

 belongs to the female, the male being formerly called the 

 Jerkin (either dim. of " Jer " or else from Jerkin, a short 

 coat, hence indicating an inferior size). Willughby spells 

 it " Jer-Falcon " and says it " seems to take its name from 

 the High Dutch word Gyrfalco, i.e. a ravenous Falcon, or 

 Vulturine Falcon " (Gyr= Vulture). Newton thinks the 

 derivation is probably from Low Latin Gyrofalco. Originally 

 the three forms of Falco rusticolus (the GYR-FALCON, 

 ICELAND FALCON, and GREENLAND FALCON) were 

 confused together under the name of Gyr-Falcon or Jer- 

 Falcon, under which name they will be found in Pennant, 

 Lewin, and other early writers. 



