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Sub. Ord. Phalacrocoraces. Cormorants. 



Gen. Phalacrocorax. Cormorants and Shags. 



XXXIX. scraeb. Cormorant. Cf. Icel. skarfr, prop- 

 erly the green cormorant; Shet. scarf; Scot, scart ; G. 

 sharbe. 



Cp. M. 199 : merga, scraeb ; Shrn. 29. 19 : ibinem ['IjSiv], i. e. screb. , 



Sub, Ord. Suls. Gannets. 



Gen. Dysporus. True Gannets. 



XL. ganot. Gannet {dysporus bassanus); also used as a 

 general term for sea-fowl, as ganotes bce^, the sea-fowl's 

 bath (sea). In ME. the word is found only in the con- 

 tracted form, gant, gante. OHG. ganazza. <^ gan, seen in 

 gander and goose [G. gans) + suffix, -ot, -et. 



WW. 259. I, 284. 9, 404. 24, ZdA. 240. 24: fulix, ganot; Bl. Gl : fulice, 

 ganotes; Cp. F. 382: funix, gonot uel doppaenid ; Ep.-Er. 419: fulix, ganot 

 uel dopaenid ; Prud. Gl. 398: cygnus, ganet ; Beo. 1861, Run. 75: ganotes 

 baet! ; Chron. 975 : and (5a wearJS eac adraefed deormod haeletS Oslac of earde 

 ofer ySa gewealc ofer ganotes baeS : Seaf. 20 : dyde ic me to gomene ganetes 

 hleoSor; Th. Ps. 104. 35 : fuglas comon of garsecge, ganetes fleogan. 



Ord. Anseriformes. Geese, Swans, Ducks. 

 F. Anatidae. Sub. F. Anserinse. Geese. 



XLI. I. gos. Goose. M^. goos, gas ; 0\iGi. gans; G. 



gans ; \ce\. gas ; 1^. anser ; Gr. ■yfj^- 



WW. 131. 21, ZdA. 240. II, M. Or. 25. 6, M. Gl. 307. 8 : auca, gos ; Ine's 

 Laws 70: gees ; Cod. Dip, i. 297. 2, i. 299. 2i : x gaes ; WW. 284. 6 : ossigra 

 ~ ; 349. 30 : anser ~ ; Cp. A. 627, Ep.-Er. 117 : ~ goos ; Er. 1103 : anseVy 

 auca, gos; Lchdm. ■i. 176. 6: gyf man mete Saet he fela gosa haebbe, god 

 Saet bits ; 2. 196. 22 : gose fitSru ; Rid. 25. 3 : hwilum graede swa gos. 



¥oT gos in local names, see Cod. Dip. 6. 291. 



2. gosfugol. Goose. 



Cod. Dip. I. 312. 9: sex gosfuglas. 



3. gandra, ganra. Gander. ME. gandre ; the same 

 word, but with different suffix, as M.WG.ganzer ; G. ganser. 



JE,. Gr. 43. 14, M. Gl. 307. 8 : anser, gandra ; WW. 131. 23 : ~ ganra ; 284. 

 12: ~ uel ganra, hwitgos; Cad. Dip. 5. 166. 6: on gandra dune ; Lchdm. 3. 

 145. 24: ganran. 



