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RED-NECKED GREBE [No. 338]. This name, which arises 



from the red fore -neck, first occurs in Pennant's " Arctic 



Zoology," and is the name used by most subsequent authors. 



RED-NECKED NIGHTJAR. See ALGERIAN RED-NECKED 



NIGHTJAR. 



RED-NECKED PHALAROPE [No. 399]. This name seems 

 to occur first in Sowerby's " British Miscellany " (1805) ; 

 it having been the " Red Phalarope " of the older authors, 

 including Pennant, Latham, Lewin, Walcott and Montagu, 

 and the Red Lobe-foot of Selby. Edwards figures both 

 male and female, calling the former " Cock Coot-footed 

 Tringa " and the latter " Red Coot-footed Tringa." The 

 name originates in the red patch on each side of the neck 

 of the adult in summer-plumage. 



RED-NECKED SANDPIPER : The DUNLIN (immature- or winter- 

 plumage). Occurs in Montagu. 

 RED OWL : The SHORT-EARED OWL. (Dartmoor.) From 



the pale orange of its under plumage (Swainson.) 

 RED PARTRIDGE : The RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. (Mac- 



gillivray.) 



RED PTARMIGAN : The RED GROUSE. (Jenyns.) 

 RED-BUMP : The REDSTART. (East Cleveland, Yorkshire.) 

 RED-RUMPED SWALLOW [No. 196]. So called from its 

 rusty-red lower-back. It was first recorded as British in 

 1906, when a small party occurred at Fair Isle, Shetlands. 

 RED SANDPIPER : The KNOT. (Pennant, Montagu, etc.) 

 Swainson gives it as an Irish name, and Nelson and Clarke 

 as a-n obsolete Yorkshire name. 



REDSHANK [No. 394]. The name " Redshank " is found in 

 Willughby, and occurs in Turner (1544) as " Redshanc " 

 and in Merrett as " Red Shanks." Turner seeks to identify 

 the species with the Hsematopodes of Pliny, which is, of 

 course, the OYSTERCATCHER. Albin calls it " Totanus 

 or Redlegged Horseman " and " Poole-Snipe." 

 REDSHANK. A name for the FIELDFARE. (Swainson.) 

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

 RED-SIDED THRUSH : The REDWING. (Macgillivray.) 

 RED-SPOTTED BLUETHROAT. See NORWEGIAN BLUE- 

 THROAT. This species seems to occur first in Edwards 

 (pi. 28) as "Blue-throated Redstart." The grounds on 

 which the authors of the " Hand-List " changed the name 

 of this species to " Norwegian Blue throat " appear to have 

 been to distinguish it from the Lapland and other forms. 



