949 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
white; secondaries black, glossed with blue on the 
inner web, and on the outer web also for about an 
inch at the tip; the rest of the outer web is white ; 
tertials black, glossed with blue, except a few nearest 
to the body, which are a rich chesnut; rump and 
tail-coverts white; tail black, the lower part of the 
two central feathers is rather indistinctly barred with 
blue; a black moustache extends from the base of 
the beak under the eye towards the neck on each 
side; throat dirty white; breast and belly nearly the 
same as the back, but rather lighter; under tail- 
coverts and thighs nearly white; legs, toes and claws 
pale brown. 
The egg of the Jay is a dull-coloured egg, very 
thick and round at the broader end: the ground 
eolour is a pale dull green, which is very thickly 
speckled with pale brown. 
Nutcracker, Nucifraga caryocatactes. I include 
this extremely rare bird in the Somersetshire list on 
the authority of Montagu, who gives the following 
account of one having been seen near Bridgwater: 
—‘‘ Mr. Anstice assures us he saw one of this 
rare species near Bridgwater, upon a Scotch fir, in 
the autumn of 1805. This accurate observer of 
Nature could not be deceived, as he examined the 
bird and attended to its actions for some time with 
the aid of a pocket telescope.”’* Since this, two 
* Montagu’s Dictionary, by Newman. 
