210 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
bably assuming the orange plumage; it has the 
head, neck, back and scapulars a dull sort of olive- 
brown, much the same colour as a young Green- 
finch; some of the feathers are more or less mar- 
gined with green; the rump is orange and yellow, 
mixed; wings and tail like the red ones; breast and 
all the under parts dull olive-brown, tinged with 
yellow and green. ‘The one I brought home from 
Guernsey alive was evidently a young bird, being 
much duller in plumage than the one just described, 
and having more green and less orange on the rump ; 
nor did it show any orange tinge on the under 
parts: during the moult, which took place in the 
spring, its head and neck became very grey; it after- 
wards assumed very much the plumage of the orange 
bird above described: it is now (October) again be- 
coming very grey about the head and neck; so pro- 
bably a second moult is approaching.  Yarrell 
describes the young females as having a greenish 
yellow tint on the top of the head, and the whole of 
the under surface of the body is mixed with greyish 
brown; the rump and upper tail-coverts primrose- 
yellow, tinged with green; the rest as in the male: 
he adds that, as far as he knows, no females 
have been found in the red plumage: this very 
probably may be so, but I do not think that 
either the different states of plumage or the habits 
of this very curious bird have yet been perfectly 
worked out. 
