192 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



RED-HEADED BUTCHER-BIRD: The WOODCHAT SHRIKE. 



(Albin.) 

 RED-HEADED FINCH : The LINNET (Pennant) ; the LESSER 



REDPOLL (Swainson). 



RED-HEADED POCHARD : The COMMON POCHARD. (Selby.) 

 RED-HEADED SMEW : The female SMEW. (Pennant.) It is 



a Holy Island name .for the young. 

 RED-HEADED SPARROW: The TREE-SPARROW. (Albin.) 



Nelson and Clarke give it as a Linton-on-Ouse (Yorkshire) 



name. 

 RED-HEADED WIGEON : The COMMON POCHARD. (Pennant.) 



In local use in Cheshire and Northumberland. 

 RED HOOP : The BULLFINCH. (Dorset.) 

 RED KITE : The KITE. (Macgillivray.) 

 RED LARK: The AMERICAN WATER-PIPIT. Occurs in 



Edwards (" Gleanings," pi. 297), Pennant, etc. 

 RED-LEGGED CROW : The CHOUGH. The name used by 



Pennant, Lewin, Latham, Walcott, Montagu and other old 



writers. Nelson and Clarke give Red-legged Daw as a local 



Yorkshire name. 



RED-LEGGED FALCON : The RED-FOOTED FALCON. 

 RED-LEGGED GODWIT : The SPOTTED REDSHANK. 



(Bewick.) 

 RED-LEGGED GULL : The BLACK-HEADED GULL. (Ireland.) 



Also Red-legged Pigeon Mew in Norfolk. 

 RED-LEGGED HORSEMAN : The REDSHANK. (Albin.) 

 RED-LEGGED JACKDAW : The CHOUGH. (North Ireland.) 

 RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE [No. 469]. The name first 



occurs in Willughby (1678). It was not formerly an 



indigenous species in our islands, having first been intro- 

 duced in Suffolk about 1770, while it has since spread 



throughout the south-eastern counties. 

 RED-LEGGED SANDPIPER or SNIPE : The REDSHANK. (Pro- 



vincially.) The former name is also applied to the RUFF 



(without its ruff). Red-leg is also a Norfolk name for the 



Redshank, and Red-legs a Yorkshire one for the same species. 

 RED LINNET : The GOLDFINCH (Cheshire) ; the LINNET 



(Hampshire, West Yorkshire) ; the LESSER REDPOLL 



(West Yorkshire). 



RED LOBE-FOOT : The RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. (Selby.) 

 RED-NECK : The COMMON POCHARD. (Cheshire.) 

 RED-NECKED BERNICLE-GOOSE : The RED-BREASTED 



GOOSE. (Macgillivray.) 



