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with white, yellow, and red ; the back-part of the 
head has a crown or ring of white feathers ; the belly- 
is aifo white ; and the tail is fhort, bifid, and va- 
riegated with chefnut and white. 
GIAROl.O. The Italian name for a fmall 
bird of the fnipe kind, remarkable for it's white 
tail. It bears a ftrong refemblance to the bird 
called in England the ftint; but it's beak is broader 
at the bafe, and it's legs are thicker and fliorter. 
Aldrovandus gives it the appellation of the Cin- 
clus tertius; a very indeterminate name, Cinclus 
being applied by different authors to feveral dif- 
ferent birds. 
GIBBON. An appellation given by Buffon to 
the long-armed ape, a very extraordinary creature, 
of different fizes, being frequently four feet high. 
It walks eredt; it is dellitute of atailj it's face re- 
fembles that of a man ; it's eyes are large, and funk 
in it's head; and it's ears are exaftly proportioned. 
But it differs from ail others of the monkey kind 
in the remarkable length of it's arms, which, when 
the animal Hands ereft, are long enough to reach 
the ground; fo that it can walk on all-fours, and 
yet retain it's ereft pofture. 
Next to the ourang outang, this animal mod 
nearly refembles mankind, not only in it's figure, 
but alfo in the gentlenefs of it's manners and the 
docility of it's difpofition. It is a native of the 
Eafl Indies, and particularly of the coafts of Coro- 
mandel. 
GIBBOUS FISH. A name given by Ray to 
the fifli called kromrugh by the Dutch. It is 
fmooth, and without fcales; the belly is white; the 
fins and tail are black ; and it grows to a confider- 
able fize, fometimcs to four feet. This fifh, which 
is caught in the Oriental Seas, near the fhores, is 
efteemed very delicious food. It receives it's 
name from a remarkable prominence on it's back, 
like that of the perch, but confiderably higher. 
GID, OR GED. A fmall bird of the fnipe 
kind, called alfo the judcock. See Snipe. 
GILT-HEAD. In the Linn^ean fyftem, this 
fifli is a fpecies of the fparus, called by that great 
naturalift fparus lunula aurea inter oculos. It is of 
a broad figure, compreffed on the fides, and fome- 
what refembles the bream. It grows to the 
weight of ten pounds ; and is caught in great 
plenty, during the fummer months, in different 
parts of the Mediterranean. The back is Iharp, 
and of a duflcy green colour; between the eyes 
there is an arched fi:ripe, refembling a crefcent of 
a gold colour, the horns of v/hich point towards 
the head, and from this femilunar gold-coloured 
fpot the Gilt-Head receives it's name. It has 
ufually a black fpot at the upper angle of the co- 
ver of the gills, and another of a purple colour be- 
low them; the teeth in each jaw are oblong and 
roundifh; the tail is extremely forked; the dorfid 
fin, which extends almoft the wliole length of the 
back, confifts of twenty-four rays; the perioral fins 
confift of feventeen rays, the ventral of fix, and 
the anal of fourteen. 
The Gilt-Head is one of the pifces fexatiles, or 
fi_flies which haunt deep waters, or bold rocky 
fhores. It feeds principally on ffiell-fini, which it 
comminutes with it's teeth before it fwallows them. 
It's liefh is reckoned extremely coarfe; and was 
little efteemed by the ancient Romans, except 
when the creature had fed on the Lucrine oyfler. 
Gilt-Head,' Red. This fpecies is about the 
fame fize as the former; it's fliape is not very dif- 
ferent] but it's whole body is of a rqd colour. At 
the bafe of the peftoral fins there is a ferruginous 
fpot; the fcales are large; and the tail is forked. 
Gilt-Head, Toothed. This fpecies grows 
to the length of twenty-fix inclies, and ten in 
breadth ; it's general conformation refcir.bles that 
of the roach ; and it's eyes are large like thofe of 
quadrupeds. In the lower jaw there are two rows 
of flender, fharp teeth, and on each fide a flender 
canine tooth; the upper jaw is furnifhed with only 
one row of teeth; the apertures of the gills are 
very large; and the body is fcaly. A fingle fin 
extends down the centre of the back almoft to the 
tail ; the firft fcven rays are high, and the reft low; 
behind the vent there is another correfponding 
fin ; and both are entirely covered with fcales, laid 
over each other. The back is black ; the fides 
are fomewhat brighter; and the belly exhibits a 
filvcry brightnefs. 
GIMMERO. An animal faid to be bred be- 
tween the afs and the bull. The generality of na- 
turalifts deny the polTibility of this mixture; while 
the natives of the Alpine countries, where this 
creature is found, as ftrongly infift on it's reality. 
GINETTA, OR GENETTA; the Viverra 
Genetta of Einnnsus. A fmall animal of thewea- 
fel kind, of a tawny red colour, ornamented with 
feveral black fpots in different parts of it's body, 
and having the ridge of it's back marked with a 
black line. See Genet. 
GIRAFFE. An appellation fometimes given 
to that very fingular animal more commonly 
known by the name of the camelopard. See Ca- 
MELOPARD. 
GIRP^OCK. The common EnRlIfli name of 
the fifti called the lacertus ; a large fpecies of gar- 
fifli, caught in the Mediterranean, the Britifb, and 
Other feas. 
GLADIUS PISCIS. An appellation given 
by many authors to the iword-fifh ; called alfo xi- 
phias. 
GLAMA. A name fometimes given to the 
llama, an animal of the camel kind; called alfo 
elapho carnelus. See Llama. 
GLANIS. An appellation given by fome na- 
turalifts to the fifh called in Latin filurus; and, iri 
Englifh, the flieat-fifii. 
GLANS MARINUS. A genus of fliell-fifti, 
more commonly called balanus; and, in Engliflij 
the centre-ftiell. 
_ GLANUS, OR GLANIS. An appellation 
given by Pliny, and other ancient writers, to that 
fpecies of the filurus called in Englifli the ftieat- 
fi(h ; and diftinguifiied in the Artedian fyftem by 
the name of the filurus with four beards on the 
chin. 
GLAREANA. A bird defcribed by Gefner,. 
and generally fuppofed to be the fpipoletta, a 
fpecies of lark; called alfo tordino by the Vene- 
tians. 
GLAUCUS. The name of a genus of fifties 
which, according to Rondoletius, comprehends 
three fpecies. I'he firft, or more common kind, 
is a broad fifli approaching to the figure of the tur- 
bot, but very thin : the colour on the back and 
fides is a dufky olive; on the belly, white; and on 
each fide appear a few black ipots. The fcales are 
fmall and rounded; the mouth is large, and inter- 
nally tinged with blue, the teeth being finall; and 
the tail is extremely large, and forked, the tips of 
the forks being varied with black. This ipecies 
is commonly caught in the Mediterranean. 
The fecond fpecies is nearly of tlie fame figure 
