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GILLIVER WREN. A Lincolnshire local name for the WREN ; 
Hett also gives “Giller Wren,” which would be a con- 
traction. 
GILLY-HOWLET or GILLIHOWLET: The BARN-OWL. (Scot- 
land.) Gilly is thought to be a diminutive of Gillian, a 
proper name. 
GINGLING CuRRE. A west-country name for the immature 
GOLDENEYE. (Hawker.) 
Girerrik. A Cornish name for the PARTRIDGE. Mr. 
Harting suggests the name is imitative of its note. 
GuappIE: The YELLOW BUNTING. (Devon and Cornwall.) 
From A.Sax. gladde= bright. 
GLADE, GLEAD, GLED, GLEDE: The KITE. The spelling 
and derivation seem uncertain, but the name in its several 
forms is an ancient one in this country. Turner (1544) 
and Merrett (1667) spell it “ Glede,” while Willughby (1678) 
has “‘Glead ” as do various later writers. The derivation 
is probably from A.Sax. glida, from glidan, to glide and move 
smoothly, this latter happening, however, to be from the 
same root as the modern “glade” (i.e. an open—hence 
sunny—part, or grassy passage, in a wood). Glade is from 
A.Sax. gled, Icel. gladhr, signifying something bright, 
smooth or shining, and being in fact the derivation also of 
our modern. word “ glad.” Glede (according to Poole) is a 
Staffordshire provincialism for a red-hot cinder, and he 
thinks the red colour of the plumage may be the origin of 
its use for the kite. Such references as :— 
The cruel ire red as any glede.—THE Knicut’s TALE. 
and, 
His armor glitteryde as did a glede—CHEVY CHASE. 
may, of course, apply to the red Kite, but are equally 
applicable to the red-hot cinder. 
Both “Gled” and ‘‘ Glead ” were lately still in use 
for this bird in Lincolnshire ; the latter also in West York- 
shire and perhaps other districts. ‘“‘ Fork-tailed Glead ” 
is another provincial name, while Gray (‘‘ Birds of West 
Scotland ”’) gives “‘ Salmon-tailed Gled.” 
GLAISEAN DARACH. A Gaelic name for the GREENFINCH. 
GuLasian. A Gaelic name for the MEADOW-PIPIT and also 
the ROCK-PIPIT. 
GLAS Y DORLAN. A Welsh name for the KINGFISHER ; lit. 
“blue (bird) of the river bank.” 
GLAUCOUS GULL [No. 435]. The name occurs in the 1832 
edition of Bewick, and was adopted by Yarrell in his first 
