140 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
with a tinge of yellow; wing-coverts dusky, tipped 
with dull yellow; quills dusky; tertials edged with 
dull yellow and white; tail dusky, except the two 
outer feathers on each side, which are white, with a 
dusky border on the inner web; chin white, which 
colour extends under the ear-coverts; throat, breast, 
belly and flanks bright yellow (in my specimens the 
throat and breast differ from the rest of the under 
parts by having a more orange tinge in them) ; legs, 
toes and claws black. Yarrell says the olive-green 
on the back of the male loses the yellow tinge in 
autumn, and has then more of the green, and that 
the under surface of the body losing brilliancy fades 
to a primrose-yellow. The adult female in the 
breeding season is much like the male, the under 
surface of the body, however, being a paler yellow. 
In autumn the head of the female is mixed with 
sreenish brown; the throat and breast are buffy 
white; belly and under tail-coverts primrose-yellow. 
The young male in his first autumn plumage 
resembles the adult female in the breeding season, 
except that the grey of the head is more mixed 
with brown and the yellow of the upper part of the 
breast is clouded with brown and buffy orange; in 
the following spring the grey feathers of the head 
exhibit a slight mixture of olive-green, and the chin 
is yellow, which in the more adult male is white. 
The young female in spring has the head and ear- 
coverts greyish brown; the chin and throat buffy 
