202 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
ROSEATE TERN [No. 418]. The name is found in Montagu 
(“ Orn. Dict.,” Supp.). So called from the pink tinge on 
the under-parts. 
ROSE-COLOURED STARLING [No. 14]. This name is found 
in the 1832 edition of Bewick. It is generally called Rose- 
coloured Pastor, from the prevailing colour of its plumage 
and from Temminck’s generic name (pastor) for it, and under 
this name it occurs in Selby (1825). Bewick (1797) has 
Rose-coloured Ouzel (probably a rendering of Buffon’s 
*“* Le Merle couleur de Rose’). 
Rose Linnet: The LESSER REDPOLL (Yorkshire); also 
the LINNET (in spring-plumage). Occurs in Fleming 
for the first-named species. 
Rosse-Lintiz. A Border name for the LINNET (Lintie=Lin- 
net). Swainson says it isa Lowland name for the LESSER 
REDPOLL. 
Ross’s Guu or Ross’s Rosy Guitt. See WEDGE-TAILED 
GULL. 
Rosy Buturincu. Now called SCARLET GROSBEAK. 
RotcHeE, Rotceu, or RotcurE: The LITTLE AUK. Rotche is 
a frequent name for the species, especially among sailors, 
and originates, apparently, in its cry, which has been 
syllabled as “ rot-tet-tet.” According to Gray this species 
is called Rotchie by the seafaring people on the shores of 
East Lothian and Fifeshire. 
RorHerock. Anold Orkneyname forthe BARNACLE-GOOSE. 
Rorr GoosE: The BRENT GOOSE. From its cry (“ rott ’). 
RovuGH-FootEep Eacir. See SPOTTED EAGLE. The name 
occurs in Charleton and in Latham, but belongs to the 
Lesser Spotted Eagle. 
ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD [No. 242]. The name first 
appears as Rough-legged Falcon in the Appendix to Pen- 
nant’s “ British Zoology.” Fleming and Yarrell have 
Rough-legged Buzzard. 
Rounp-Berry Brrp: The RING-OUZEL. (Connemara.) From 
its fondness for the berries of the rowan or mountain 
ash (Swainson). 
Row-pow or Roo-Doo : The HOUSE-SPARROW. (Northants.) 
Royston Crow. The Old English name for the HOODED 
CROW, but still in use in the northern counties. It is 
found in Merrett (1667), and also Willughby, Albin and 
Pennant (1766 ed.). The latter in later editions calls it 
