386 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
is dark brown towards the point, pale yellow-brown 
at the base; the space from the beak to the eye is 
dark, over this and over the eye is a white mark; 
the head, nape, back and all the upper parts are 
olive-brown, glossed with sap-green—there is a 
dusky line down the shaft of each feather, and 
many of the feathers (especially the tertials and 
greater wing-coverts) have irregular transverse dusky 
markings on them; the primary quills are dusky, 
with a white mark on the inner web of all but the 
first; the secondaries are white at the base, and 
those nearest the body are also tipped with white ; 
the feathers of the bastard wing are dusky, tipped 
and partially margined on the outer web with 
white; the central tail-feathers are the same as the 
rest of the upper parts, but more marked with zig- 
zag dusky markings; the exterior feathers are tipped 
and barred with white; the chin and throat are 
white; the sides of the neck and breast palish 
dusky, streaked on the centre of each feather with a 
darker shade; the rest of the under parts are pure 
white, except a slight tinge of dusky about the out- 
side of the thighs. The legs and toes are ash-green ; 
the claws brown. The young birds of the year 
are much more mottled in their appearance, all 
the feathers of the upper parts being margined 
and tipped with bars of yellowish brown and 
dusky. 
The eggs are pear-shaped and large for the size 
