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Hooded Crow. Turner (1544) calls it the ““ Winter Crow.” 
Albin says it is sc 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. 
Ruppock: The REDBREAST. (Cornwall and Yorkshire.) 
Occurs in Merrett and Willughby. From A.Sax. rudduc. 
Swainson also gives “‘ Reddock ” for Dorset. 
Ruppy Piover: The SANDERLING. Adult male in summer- 
plumage. (Swainson.) 
RUDDY SHELD-DUCK [No. 286]. Occurs in Selby (1833), and 
also in Yarrell (Ist 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.” 
Rurrep Bustarp. A name for MACQUEEN’S BUSTARD. 
RvFous-BACKED Ecret: The BUFF-BACKED HERON. 
(Gould.) 
Rvurovus TurtLEe-Dove. An Asiatic ally of our TURTLE-DOVE 
which has occurred in Yorkshire. 
RUFOUS WARBLER [No. 152]. The name is found in 
Latham. (‘‘ Syn.,” rv, p. 431). It occursin Gould (“ Birds 
of Europe”) and Yarrell (“ Supp.” 1, 1856) as Rufous Sedge 
Warbler. Derived from the Rufous-brown plumage. 
RunneR: The WATER-RAIL. (Sedbergh, Yorkshire.) 
Runt : The WREN. (Near Huddersfield.) 
Rusu-WaRBLER. A name for the REED-WARBLER. 
