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ORNITHOLOGISTS' COMPENDIUM. 
Fringe (L. lo'ma ; fim'bria ; lacin'ia), n. A lacerated marginal membrane. 
Front'al (L.fronta'tus), a. Pertaining to the forehead. 
Frontlet (L. an'tia),n. The extreme anterior portion of the forehead; 
usually distinguished by a difference of level (usually more depressed) 
from the forehead, as in the Woodpeckers. When divided by the 
base of the culmen (as in the Woodpeckers), the frontal points are 
called antice. (See plate XII. fig. 1.) 
Frugiv'orous (L.frucji'vorus), a. Fruit-eating. 
Fuliginous (L. fuligino'sus), n. or a. Sooty brown, or dark smoke-color. 
Fulves'cent (lu.fulves'cens), a. Inclining to a fulvous color. 
Fulvous (L./ul'vus), n. A rather indefinite brownish yellow, or yellowish 
brown tint, like tanned leather; tawny. 
Fur'cate (L.furca'tns), a. Forked. 
Fus'cous (L.fus'cus), n. or a. Dark brown, of a rather indefinite shade. 
Fu'siform (L. fusifor'mis), a. Spindle-shaped, or tapering at each end. 
(Plate XVI. fig. 13.) 
G. 
Gal'eate (L. galea'tus), a. Helmeted, or armed or ornamented with a 
frontal shield, as the Gallinules, Coots, Cassowaries, etc. 
Gallina'cea (L.), n. A name of the Fowl tribe, or Order Gallinece of some 
authors. 
Gallina'ceous (L. gallina'ceus), a. Belonging to the Order Gallinacea 
or Gallinece, or that which embraces the domestic fowl and kindred 
birds. Having the characteristics or nature of the Gallinece. 
Gall'-stone Yellow, n. A very strong brownish yellow, somewhat like 
yellow ochre, but transparent, and much brighter in its paler tints. 
(Aureolin, raw sienna, and cadmium-orange.) (Plate V. fig. 6.) 
Gam'boge Yellow, n. A pure yellow color, of a lemon tint ; less intense 
and somewhat less pure than the lighter cadmiums, but very trans- 
parent. The pigment thus called is the concreted juice of the 
Hebradendron cambogioides, a plant which grows in Cambodia. (Plate 
VI. fig. 10.) 
Gape (L. ric'tus), n. The opening of the mouth. 
Gastrae'um (L.), n. The lower parts, collectively. 
Gen'a (L.), n. The cheek, or feathered portion of the lower jaw. 
Gen'era, n. Plural of Genus. 
Generic, a. Pertaining to a Genus. 
Gen'esis, n. In biological science, the derivation or origin of a form, 
whether by evolution or direct creation. 
Genetic, a. Pertaining to Genesis. 
Ge'nus (pi. gen'era), n. An assemblage of species which agree in the 
possession of certain characters distinguishing them from otherwise 
