A89, BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
of grey in short lines; under tail-coverts bluish 
black; legs, toes and webs orange; claws black. 
The female has the head and upper part of the 
neck spotted with dark brown on a surface of 
pale brown; the alternate crescentic bands on the 
lower part of the neck in front dark brown and 
pale brown, but the bands broader than in the 
male; under surface of the body white; lower part 
of the neck behind and upper surface of the body 
brown, the feathers edged with pale brown; wing- 
coverts brown, with paler margins; speculum like 
that of the male; tail-feathers dark brown, with 
edges and tips of pale buffy brown and white.” Yar- 
rell, from whom these descriptions are taken, adds 
that the young birds of the year at the Zoological 
Gardens, compared with the old birds, are of a more 
uniform reddish brown colour above, speckled with 
dark brown; the middle of each feather is also dark 
brown. 
Yarrell also says that one of the eggs laid in the 
Zoological Gardens was of a uniform buity white 
colour, tinged with green. 
Pinta, Anas acuta. This elegant species of 
Duck is a tolerably regular, but not very common, 
autumn and winter visitor to this county, frequenting 
both the coast and the inland waters im the marsh: 
this season (1868-69) it has perhaps been more com- 
mon than usual. It is easily kept in confinement, 
and is a very ornamental bird. Montagu says it has 
