Moor-hens aren't "red and white and green and gray" either, but that's how the Jacobite ballad Bonnie Moorhen goes.   The colors referenced are those of the Stuart tartan, and have nothing to do with the literal plumage of the fowl in question.

(Since no one's addressing the actual question of this thread, I'll assume till I hear otherwise that the matter was quietly settled out of court. And that the guy who flamed my website was just being a schmucko.)