180 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
slightly edged on the secondaries and primaries with 
light dull yellow; the tertials more broadly margined 
with dull rusty orange; there is a streak of white on 
the base of some of the primary and secondary 
quills ; lesser wing-coverts dusky, slightly margined 
with dull orange rusty, and tipped with dull white, 
making a bar of that colour across the wings; the 
greater coverts dusky, almost black, tipped, those 
farthest from the body with white and those nearest 
to the body with dull rusty orange; throat and 
breast dull rusty orange; belly and under tail-coverts 
nearly white; flanks dull rusty orange and white 
mixed, and a few spots of dusky. 
Yarrell says the eggs are much like those of a 
Chaffinch, white tinged with yellow and spotted 
with dark red. 
SERIN F'1ncu, Fringilla Serinus. I have consider- 
able doubt about the propriety of including this bird 
in the Somersetshire list: I do so, however, on the 
authority of one specimen which was killed in Taun- 
ton, in January or February, 1866: it was shown to 
me by Mr. Haddon, of that town, on the 31st of 
March, after it had been stuffed and put into a case. 
I then had some doubt as to the identity of the 
bird: it struck me at the time as so like a cross 
between the Siskin and the Canary as scarcely to be 
distinguished from it, and I thought it might be 
some escaped pet, as it was shot while feeding with 
some Sparrows ina back garden in the town. I have, 
