RIOT. The "Master of Game's" statement on p. 74 that no other wild beast in England is called ryott save the coney only has called forth many suggestions as to the origin of this name being applied to the rabbit, and the connection between riot, a noise or brawl, and the rabbit. The word riot is represented in M. E. and O. F. by _riote_, in Prov. _riota_, Ital. _riotta_, and in all these languages it had the same signification, _i.e._ a brawl, a dispute, an uproar, a quarrel (Skeat). Diez conjectures the F. _riote_ to stand for _rivote_, and refers to O. H. G. _riben_, G. _reiben_, to grate, to rub (orig. perhaps to rive, to rend). From German, _sich an einem reiben_, to mock, to attack, to provoke one; lit. to rub oneself against one. Rabbit, which is in O. Dutch robbe, has probably the same origin from _reiben_. The etymology and connection, if any, between the two words rabbit and riot is difficult to determine. It is very probable that the rabbit was called _riot_ from producing a brawling when the hounds came across one. The term "running _riot_" may well be derived from a hunting phrase. ROE. The error regarding the October rut into which G. de F. and the Duke of York fell was one to which the naturalists of much later times subscribed, for it was left to Dr. Ziegler and to Dr. Bischoff, the Professor of Physiology at Heidelberg, to demonstrate in 1843 the true history of the gestation of the roe, which for more than a century had been a hotly disputed problem. On that occasion it was shown with scientific positiveness that the true rut of the roe takes place about the end of July or first week in August, and that the ovum does not reach the uterus for several months, so that the first development of the embryo does not commence before the middle of December. RUNNING HOUNDS AND RACHES (F. _chiens courants_). Under this heading we include all such dogs as hunted by scent in packs, whatever the game they pursued might be. They appear in the early records of our kings as _Canes de Mota_, _Canes currentes_, and as _Sousos_ (scenting hounds) (Close Rolls 7 John; Mag. Rot. 4, John Rot. 10; 4 Henry III.), and are mentioned specifically as _cervericiis_, _deimericiis_, as _Heyrectorum_ (harriers) or _canes heirettes_, and foxhounds as _gupillerettis_ or _wulpericiis_ (Close Rolls, 15 John). The Anglo-Saxon word _Hundas_, hound, was a general name for any dog; the dog for the chase in Anglo-Saxon times being distinguished by the prefix _Ren_, making _ren hund_.