3880 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
glossed in some lights with sap-green,—on the 
margins are triangular spots of white; the rump is 
white; the tail barred white and black; the chin is 
white; sides and front of the neck and the breast 
ash-grey, each feather streaked in the centre with 
dusky,—the centre of the neck and breast are much 
lighter than the rest, all the rest of the feathers, 
except the dark streak in the centre, being nearly 
white ; belly white; under tail-coverts white, with a 
few dusky markings on the feathers; flanks and 
thighs the same. ‘This is the description of a bird 
in Mr. Haddon’s collection, which was shot at Burn- 
ham, and agrees very nearly with the description of 
the winter plumage of the mature bird given by 
Yarrell. The legs and toes are red; the claws 
black. A bird in my own collection, also killed at 
Burnham, early in the autumn, presents much more 
the appearance of the summer plumage; space 
between the beak and eye darkish dusky, over this 
and over the eye an indistinct white streak; the 
head and nape are streaked ash-grey and dusky ; 
the feathers of the back, scapulars and wing-coverts 
are dark dusky, distinctly margined with pale 
yellowish brown; the lower part of the back and the 
rump pure white; the tail-coverts are white, barred 
with dusky: the tail yellowish brown, barred with 
dusky; the primary quills are very dark dusky, 
nearly black, the shafts are white; the tertials dusky 
in the centre, margined and marked with pale 
