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Hooded Crow. Turner (1544) calls it the " Winter 



Albin says it is so called from having been seen in numbers 



in winter about Royston and Newmarket. 



Ruby-crowned Wren. This American species, of which two 

 examples were said to have been shot near Loch Lomond in 

 1852, is not considered to have a place on the British List. 



RUDDOCK: The REDBREAST. (Cornwall and Yorkshire.) 

 Occurs in Merrett and Willughby. From A. Sax. rudduc. 

 Swainson also gives " Reddock " for Dorset. 



RUDDY PLOVER : The SANDERLING. Adult male in summer- 

 plumage. (Swainson.) 



RUDDY SHELD-DUCK [No. 286]. Occurs in Selby (1833), and 

 also in Yarrell (1st ed.) as the Ruddy Shieldrake. It is 

 the Ruddy Goose of Bewick. 



RUFF and REEVE [No. 370]. Derivation of Reeve is thought 

 to be from A.Sax. gerefa, literally one in authority, perhaps 

 so called from the pugnacious habits of the males. A 

 wood-reeve was anciently the overseer of a wood. The 

 name is found in Willughby as " The Ruff, whose female 

 is called a Reeve " ; in Merrett as " Rough and Reev," 

 perhaps a mere phonetic spelling (but see below). The 

 name Ruff is invariably applied to the male bird, the 

 female being called Reeve. According to Willughby, 

 " They breed in Summer time in the Fens of Lincolnshire 

 about Crowland," but it is, alas, now nearly a thing of the 

 past for them to breed anywhere in England. Newton 

 observes that it is " at present unknown whether the 

 bird was named from the frill (Elizabethan) or the frill 

 from the bird. In the latter case the name should possibly 

 be spelt Rough (cf. ' rough-footed ' as applied to fowls with 

 feathered legs) as in 1666 Merrett (' Pinax,' p. 182) had it." 



RUFFED BUSTARD. A name for MACQUEEN'S BUSTARD. 



RUFOUS-BACKED EGRET: The BUFF-BACKED HERON. 

 (Gould.) 



RUFOUS TURTLE-DOVE. An Asiatic ally of our TURTLE-DOVE 

 which has occurred in Yorkshire. 



RUFOUS WARBLER [No. 152]. The name is found in 

 Latham. (" Syn.," iv, p. 431). It occurs in Gould (" Birds 

 of Europe ") and Yarrell (" Supp." n, 1856) as Rufous Sedge 

 Warbler. Derived from the Rufous- brown plumage. 



RUNNER : The WATER-RAIL. (Sedbergh, Yorkshire.) 



RUNT : The WREN. (Near Huddersfield.) 



RUSH- WARBLER. A name for the REED-WARBLER. 



