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Bud-picker, Bud-bird, or Bud-finch : The BULLFINCH , 

 from its habit of picking the buds of fruit trees. 



BUFF-BACKED HERON [No. 264]. Also sometimes called 

 Buff-backed Egret. The name Buff-backed Heron is found 

 in Selby (1833). IMontagu ("Om. Diet.," Supp.) described 

 the 3'Oung as the " Little White Heron." It is the Red-billed 

 Heron of Pennant and the Rufous-backed Heron of Gould. 

 Bemck's Buff-coloured Egret is the SQUACCO HERON. 



Buff-breasted Goosander : The GOOSANDER. (Mac- 

 gillivi'ay.) 



BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER [No. 382]. The name is 

 found as Buflf-bi-easted Tringa in Selby and Buff-breasted 

 Sandpiper in Jcn^ois. 



Buff-coloured Egret : The SQUACCO HERON. (Bewick.) 



BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK [No. 303]. The name is found in 

 Audubon, Bonaparte, etc. It is the Buffel-headed Garrot 

 of Jen}Tis. 



Buffon's Skua : The LONG-TAILED SKUA. (Yarrell.) 



BuiDHEAG bhealaidh. A Gaelic name for the YELLOW 

 BUNTING; lit. "the yellowling of the broom." Mac- 

 gilli\Tay also gives Buidheag Bhuachair. 



Bulking Lark : The TREE-PIPIT. (Thirsk, Yorkshire.) 



Bullcoot : The COOT. 



BULLFINCH [No. 30, British Buimnch; No. 29, Northern 

 Bullfinch]. Probably so called from the stoutness of the 

 neck and head (cf. B^dldog, etc.), but according to Yarrell, 

 from its largish size in comparison with other finches. The 

 name appears in Turner (1544) as " Bulfinche " and 

 "Bulfinc," and in Merrett (1667) as "Bullfinch." Wil- 

 lughby (1678) spells it " Bulfinch " in the text and " Bull- 

 finch " on the plate. The British form was first dis- 

 tinguished by Macgillivi-ay ("Hist. Brit. Birds," i, p. 407, 

 1837) under the name of Pyrrhula. pileata, but most later 

 Avriters continued to identify both forms under Vieillot's 

 name P. europcea. For the principal variants of its pecuHar 

 provincial names, see rmder " Alp." 



BuLLFLiNCH : The BULLFINCH. (Thirsk, Yorkshire.) 

 Bullhead or Bullseye. Irish local names for the GOLDEN 

 PLOVER and also the GREY PLOVER. The former 

 name is applied by Macgillivray and also Swainson to the 

 GREY PLOVER, and the latter says it is on accoimt of 

 the round shape of its head. 



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