320 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
The adult male differs in having two half circular 
dark brown bands down the sides of the throat from 
the ear-coverts, and has a black patch at the bottom 
of the bands on the front of the neck; there are no 
spots on the breast; the legs, toes and claws are 
pale brown. 
The eggs are of “a yellowish or dull orange- 
coloured white, blotched or speckled with umber- 
brown.” * 
As far as Somersetshire is concerned this finishes 
the Rasorial Order. I have tried in vain to find 
any record of the Struthionide or Bustards, although 
I should think the Great Bustard at all events must 
have occurred on some of the open ground on the 
top of the Mendips between Bath and Wells and 
along the Wiltshire boundary. 
Orper GRALLATORES.—Family Cuaraprip™. 
‘he numerous Order at which I have now arrived 
—the Grallatores, Stilted birds, or as they are more 
commonly called, “ Waders,’— leads us to rather 
different scenes, for instead of the hedge-rows and 
corn-fields, gardens, plantations, shrubberies and 
old buildings, where we have had to seek for the 
* Yarrell, vol. u., p. 415. 
