8 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
some precipitous rock, and Meyer says occasionally 
in high pine trees: it is a slight affair, made of dry 
sticks. 
The following descriptions are taken from a 
young male, or Red ‘Tiercel, and an adult female 
in my own collection, the former shot in this 
county, the latter at Seaton. Bull blue; cere dull 
greenish yellow; irides hazel; the front part of the 
forehead whitish with some long black hairs; head 
brown, feathers edged with hghter yellowish brown 
and white; a dark brown band making a sort of 
moustache extends from the base of the beak part 
way down each side of the throat; the throat itself 
white, narrowly streaked with brown; nape brown, 
with a few almost white feathers, making a sort of 
collar; all the upper parts dark brown, each feather 
narrowly edged with heht rusty brown; tail dark 
brown, each feather spotted rather than barred with 
rusty, tips nearly white; all the under parts brown, 
each feather very broadly margined with yellowish 
white and white, giving it more the appearance of 
those colours than brown; quills dusky; legs greenish 
yellow. Adult female: Bill blue; cere yellow; irides 
yellow; head, nape, back scapulars and wing-coverts 
bluish ash, barred with darker; rump and tail- 
coverts lighter bluish ash than the rest of the back, 
barred more narrowly with dark; tail barred with 
two shades of bluish ash, tips of the feathers white ; 
quills dusky; as in the case of the young bird, a 
