460 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
The present species has the irides dark brown ; 
the head and neck brown, tinged with grey; back 
and scapulars dark brown, slightly tinged with 
grey, each feather margined with greyish white ; 
wing-coyerts, secondaries and tertials greyish brown, 
edged and tipped with white; primaries dark 
brown, tinged with grey; rump dark brown; upper 
tail-coverts white ; tail-feathers dark brown, broadly 
edged with greyish white; neck in front, breast and 
belly dirty white; abdomen and under tail-coverts 
pure white; claws black.* 
Yarrell says the egg is dull white. 
WHITEFRONTED Goosk, Anser albifrons. Of the 
present species, the Whitefronted or Laughing 
Goose, two undoubtedly Somersetshire specimens 
have come under my notice, both of them shot by my 
father at Fitzhead, near here, one hard winter, but 
how long ago I do not know, as no note of the event 
was made: one of these birds, which was only 
wounded, was kept in the pond, and although so 
severely wounded as to cause the loss of one foot it 
survived for a long time and became very tame; the 
other was stuffed by my father, and is now in my 
collection. I did not till lately + know of any other 
occurrence of this bird in our county, although in 
the neighbouring County of Devon both this and 
* Yarrell, vol. i., p..186. 
+ See Bean Goose, p. 458. 
