anna</i>
(q.v.).

<hw>Guard-fish</hw>, <i>n.</i> Erroneous spelling of
<i>Garfish</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Gudgeon</hw>, <i>n.</i> The name is given in New South
Wales to the fish <i>Eleotris coxii</i>, Krefft, of the family
of the Gobies.

<hw>Guitar Plant</hw>, a Tasmanian shrub, <i>Lomatia
tinctoria</i>, R. Br., <i>N.O. Proteaceae</i>.

<hw>Gull</hw>, <i>n.</i> common English name for a sea-bird.
The Australian species are--

Long-billed Gull--
<i>Larus longirostris</i>, Masters.

Pacific G.--
<i>L. pacificus</i>, Lath.

Silver G.--
<i>L. novae-hollandiae</i>, Steph.

Torres-straits G.--
<i>L. gouldi</i>, Bp.

<hw>Gully</hw>, <i>n.</i> a narrow valley. The word is very
common in Australia, and is frequently used as a place name.
It is not, however, Australian. Dr.Skeat (`Etymological
Dictionary') says, "a channel worn by water." Curiously
enough, his first quotation is from `Capt. Cook's Third
Voyage,' b. iv. c. 4. Skeat adds, "formerly written
<i>gullet</i>: `It meeteth afterward with another gullet,'
i.e. small stream. Holinshed, `Description of Britain,' c. 11:
F. goulet, `a gullet . . . a narrow brook or deep gutter of
water.' (Cotgrave.) Thus the word is the same as gullet."
F. <i>goulet</i> is from Latin <i>gula. Gulch</i> is the word
used in the Pacific States, especially in California.

1773. `Hawkesworth's Voyages,' vol. iii. p. 532--Captain Cook's
First Voyage, May 30, 1770:

"The deep gullies, which were worn by torrents from the hills."

1802. D. Collins, `Account of New South Wales,' vol. ii.
p. 214:

"A man, in crossing a gully between Sydney and Parramatta, was,
in attempting to ford it, carried away by the violence of the
torrent, and drowned."

1862. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 17:

"The gums in the gully stand gloomy and stark."

1867. A.L. Gordon, `Sea-spray, etc.,' p. 134:

"The gullies are deep and the uplands are steep."

1875. Wood and Lapham, `Waiting for the Mail,' p. 16:

"The terrible blasts that rushed down the narrow gully, as if
through a funnel."

<hw>Gully-raker</hw>, <i>n.</i> a long whip.

1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 40:

"The driver appealing occasionally to some bullock or other by
name, following up his admonition by a sweeping cut of his
`gully-raker,' and a report like a musket-shot."

<hw>Gum</hw>, or <hw>Gum-tree</hw>, <i>n.</i> the popular name
for any tree of the various species of <i>Eucalyptus</i>