396 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
whitish brown; the back of the neck is pale brown, 
slightly streaked with darkish brown; the feathers 
of the back and scapulars are dark dusky brown, 
broadly margined with pale rusty brown; the rump 
white; the tail-coverts white, with a few distinct 
dusky bars; the tail is pale rusty brown, the same 
as the back, barred with dusky, the light part 
becoming white towards the base of the feathers ; 
the wing-coverts are dusky in the centre, broadly 
margined with pale whitish brown; the primary 
quills are very dark dusky, almost black, but much 
paler on the middle and lower part of the inner web, 
narrowly tipped with white,—the shafts are white; 
tertials are the same as the back, but the margins 
are barred with dusky; the chin is white; the front 
of the neck and breast is pale whitish brown, with 
darker lines on the shafts of the feathers; the flanks 
the same, but rather paler; the belly is white; the 
under tail-coverts and the feathers by the side of the 
tail and part of the flanks are white, with longitudinal 
dusky marks in the centre. 
The eggs are much like those of the Blacktailed 
Godwit, but a little smaller; of a pale yellowish 
wood-brown ground colour, speckled and blotched 
with clove-brown and umber-brown. 
Rurr, Machetes pugnax. This very peculiar bird 
is an occasional autumn and winter visitor to our 
county: the last I have heard of was recorded by 
the Rev. Murray A. Mathew, in the ‘ Zoologist’ for 
