204 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Rtjsset-pated Chofgh. Shakespeare mentions (" i\fidsummer 

 Night's Dream," act in, sc. 2) : — 



Russet pated chouglis, many in sort. 

 Rising and cawing at the gun's report. 

 The term " russet-pated " has aroused a good deal of con- 

 troversy. Mr. Harting considers it to refer to the JACK- 

 DAW, and a few years ago in the " Zoologist " he defended 

 at some length his opinion that " russet " might denote the 

 grey nape of this bird. Professor Ne^vi;on, on the other 

 hand, seems to have preferred to read it " russet-patted " 

 (i.e., red-footed), making the passage refer to the CHOUGH. 

 Mr. Harting has shov^n (as will he seen in the present work 

 under " Chough ") that the word " chough " did not always 

 apply to Pyrrhocorax graculus ; yet on the other hand he 

 admits that Shakespeare in other cases refers always to 

 the Jackdaw as the " daw." 



Russet Wheatear : The BLACK-EARED WHEATEAR. 

 The name is found in Latham, and it is figured bv Edwards 

 (pi. 31). It is also called Russet Chat. 



RUSTIC BUNTING [No. 51]. The name is an anglicization of 

 Pallas's name Emheriza rustica. 



SABINE'S GULL [No. 423]. The name is found in Jenyns and 

 was adopted by Yarrell and succeeding authors. It is the 

 Sabine's Xeme of Eyton. 



Sabine's Snipe. A melanism of the COM^ION SNIPE, for long 

 supposed to be a distinct species. It was first described 

 by Vigors in a communication to the Linnean Society 

 (" Trans.," vol. xiv), from a bird shot in Queen's Count^^, 

 Ireland, in 1822, while many others have been obtained 

 from time to time. 



Sadcock, Sedcock, Sedgecock, Settcock. Local Cheshire 

 names for the MISTLE-THRUSH. (Coward and Oldham.) 



Saddle-back : The GREAT and LESSER BLACK-BACKED 

 GULLS. (Yorkshire.) From the saddle-shape of the dark 

 mantle. Swainson gives Greater Saddle-back as an Irish 

 name for the former. 



Said Fool. A Shetland name for the LESSER BLACK- 

 BACKED GULL. (Saxby.) 



St. Cuthbert's Duck : The COMMON EIDER. (Northumber- 

 land.) 



St. George's Duck : The SHELD-DUCK. Occurs in Montagu. 



St. Kilda Wren. See WREN. 



Saith : The MISTLE-THRUSH. The name occurs in Merrett 

 (1667). 



