. A dictionary of birds . inal signification should be always borne in mind; andhere it may be remarked that, almost from the beginning ofSystematic Ornithology, the word Gavia ^ has been used in severalsenses—for instance, in 1752, by Mohring {Av. Gen. p. 66), asequivalent to the Linnsean Larus; in 1760 by Brisson (thoughnot generically) for the middle-sized and smaller Gulls, together withthe Noddy; in 1788 by J. E. Forster {EncUrid. Eist. Nat. p. 38)for a genus of Water-birds of which he did not specify the type ;^by Boie {his, 1822, p. 563) as the generic name of the short-leggedGulls, Lar
. A dictionary of birds . inal signification should be always borne in mind; andhere it may be remarked that, almost from the beginning ofSystematic Ornithology, the word Gavia ^ has been used in severalsenses—for instance, in 1752, by Mohring {Av. Gen. p. 66), asequivalent to the Linnsean Larus; in 1760 by Brisson (thoughnot generically) for the middle-sized and smaller Gulls, together withthe Noddy; in 1788 by J. E. Forster {EncUrid. Eist. Nat. p. 38)for a genus of Water-birds of which he did not specify the type ;^by Boie {his, 1822, p. 563) as the generic name of the short-leggedGulls, Larus ehurneus and L. rissa;^ and by Gloger in 1842 (Hand-imd Hilfsh. f. Naturgsch. p. 433) for the Lapwing {Vanellus) and ^ Gavia seems to be still an Italian word signif3ing Gull, though the deriva-tive Gabbiano is more commonly used. ^ Ilis diagnosis indicates that he meant what is most commonly calledColymbus (Diver). 3 Boie subsequently {Ms, 1822, p. 876 ; 1826, p. 980 ; and 1844, p. 191) usedthe word in other GEELBEC—GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 311 its allies, wliile in 1834 Naumann {Vog. Detdschl. vii. p. 248) choseGavia} as the name of a group consisting of the Grey Plover. GrEELBEC (YelloAY beak), the Dutch name used by Englishmenin the Cape Colony for Anas flavirostris, the common Wild DuCK ofSouth Africa. GELINOTTE, diminutive of the old French Geline (Lat. Gallina,a Hen), often used in English for what is otherwise called theHazel-hen or Hazel-GROUSE—the one species, perhaps, whose intro-duction, were it possible, to this country might be desirable. GEMITORES, Macgillivrays name {Br. B. i. pp. 97, 249) forthe Order of Birds consisting of Pigeons. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. In regard to no group of animals did the desire to know the details of what is commonly 1 styled Geographical Distribution become earlier manifest than the \ Class Aves. One probable reason of this is the obvious fact that I no group as a whole possesses such faculties for extensive loco
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