EED — RED. 191 



Red-breasted Snipe-Tattler : The RED-BREASTED SAND- 

 PIPER. So called because it resembles both the snipes 

 and the " tattlers." 



Redcat : The GOLDFINCH. (North England.) From its red 

 front , also applied to the LINNET when in spring-plumage 

 ^Wth red cro^n, and to the LESSER REDPOLL at Ack- 

 worth, Yorkshire, 



Red Cock : The RED GROUSE. (Tunstall MS., 1780.) 



Red Coot-footed Trinoa : The RED-NECKED PHALAROPE 

 (female) is so called by Edwards. 



Red Craking Reed-Wren. A name for SAVI'S WARBLER. 



RED-CRESTED POCHARD [No. 297]. The name is found 

 in Selby. It is the Red-crested Whistling Duck of Yarrell 

 (1st ed.) who fii'st recorded the species in 1828 (" Zool. Jnl.," 

 n, p. 492). The name arises from the rusty-red colour of 

 the crested head. 



Red Duck : The FERRUGINOUS DUCK. (Pennant.) 



Red-eyed Poker : The CO^CVION POCHARD. (Provincial.) 



RED-FOOTED FALCON [No. 239]. The name, which originates 

 in the bright brownish red of the tarsi and feet, appears in 

 the fii'st edition of YaiTell. It is the Red-legged Falcon of 

 Jenjms and Eyton, and the Orange-legged Hobby of Selby. 



Red-fronted Swallow: The SWALLOW (Macgillivray). 



Red-fronted Thistle-finch : The GOLDFINCH. (Macgil- 

 livray.) 



Red Ga3ie : The RED GROUSE. Occurs in Willughby. 



Red Godwit: The BLACK-TAILED GODWIT (Pennant, 

 Montagu) ; BAR-TAILED GODWIT (Selby). 



Red Godwit Snipe: The BLACK-TAILED "^ GODWIT, in 

 spring-plumage. (Pennant.) 



RED GROUSE [No. 464]. Pennant, in his folio edition, calls 

 it Grous only, but in his later editions " Red Grous," the 

 final e being quite modem. Occiu-s in Willughby (1678) 

 as " Red Game, Gor-cock, More-cock," while Sibbald (1684) 

 calls it " Moor-Cock, or Moor-fowl." It is believed in 

 Scotland that the gathering of Grouse into large flocks 

 indicates snow. Their approach to the farm-yard is a sign 

 of severe weather — frost and snow. WTien they sit on 

 dykes in the moor, rain only is expected (Inwards). 



Red Hawk : The KESTREL. (Stirling and Yorkshire.) From 

 its rufous plumage. Also the PEREGRINE FALCON in 

 first year's plumage. 



Red-head : The CO^IMON POCHARD. (Yorkshire.) 



