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Bup-PIcKER, Bup-BirD, or Bup-FiIncH: The BULLFINCH ; 
from its habit of picking the buds of fruit trees. 
BUFF-BACKED HERON [No. 264]. Also sometimes called 
Buff-backed Egret. The name Buff-backed Heron is found 
in Selby (1833). Montagu (Orn. Dict.,”’ Supp.) described 
the young as the “ Little White Heron.” It is the Red-billed 
Heron of Pennant and the Rufous-backed Heron of Gould. 
Bewick’s Buff-coloured Egret is the SQUACCO HERON. 
BUFF-BREASTED GoOsANDER: The GOOSANDER. (Mac- 
cillivray.) 
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER [No. 382]. The name is 
found as Buff-breasted Tringa in pany and Buff-breasted 
Sandpiper in Jenyns. 
BUFF-COLOURED Egret: The SQUACCO HERON. (Bewick.) 
BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK [No. 303]. The name is found in 
Audubon, Bonaparte, etc. It is the Buffel-headed Garrot 
of Jenyns. 
Burron’s Skua: The LONG-TAILED SKUA. (Yarrell.) 
BUIDHEAG BHEALAIDH. A Gaelic name for the YELLOW 
BUNTING ; lit. “the yellowling of the broom.” Mac- 
gillivray also gives BUIDHEAG BHUACHAIR. 
BuLkKine Lark: The TREE-PIPIT. (Thirsk, Yorkshire.) 
Buticoor: The COOT. 
BULLFINCH [No. 30, British Bullfinch; No. 29, Northern 
Bullfinch]. Probably so called from the stoutness of the 
neck and head (cf. Bulldog, etc.), but according to Yarrell, 
from its largish size in comparison with other finches. The 
name appears in Turner (1544) as ‘“ Bulfinche” and 
‘“* Bulfine,’” and in Merrett (1667) as “‘ Bullfinch.” Wil- 
lughby (1678) spells it “‘ Bulfinch’ in the text and “ Bull- 
finch” on the plate. The British form was first dis- 
tinguished by Macgillivray (‘‘ Hist. Brit. Birds,” 1, p. 407, 
1837) under the name of Pyrrhula pileata, but most later 
writers continued to identify both forms under Vieillot’s 
name P. europea. For the principal variants of its peculiar 
provincial names, see under “ Alp.” 
BuLiFiincy : The BULLFINCH. (Thirsk, Yorkshire.) 
BuLLHEAD or ButtseyeE. Irish local names for the GOLDEN 
PLOVER and also the GREY PLOVER. The former 
name is applied by Macgillivray and also Swainson to the 
GREY PLOVER, and the latter says it is on account of 
the round shape of its head. 
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