O44 BIRDS OF SONERSETSHIRE. 
white tip; the white colour occupies more space in 
each feather approaching the outside, increasing to 
a space of three-quarters of an inch at the ends of 
those most external; the under tail-coverts and 
under-surface of the tail-feathers greyish brown, the 
latter ending in dull white; tail in form nearly 
square at the end; legs, toes and claws black.” As 
I have not a Nutcracker in my collection, and I do 
not think I am likely to get one, I have taken the 
above description from Yarrell. In size this bird 
nearly equals the Jay: from the stuffed specimens I 
have seen I should say it was rather smaller, but 
Yarrell gives the dimensions as nearly the same, the 
length of both being thirteen inches and _ three- 
quarters. 
This bird concludes the Corvide, as well as the 
rather large division of the Insessores, or perching 
birds, called Conirostres. It is one of the most in- 
teresting of the various divisions of this large order, 
as it is the one most intimately connected with man, 
and from the number of individuals in some of the 
species, as well as from their propensities, the one 
which may be supposed to do him most good or 
harm: I have therefore been as minute and particular 
as I can in my notes of the food of the various 
species. I think if any one examines the various lists 
of food I have given, he will find that neither the 
farmer nor the gardener is hkely to gain much by a 
