A84 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
upper part of the throat and of the nape rich brown, 
slightly speckled with a darker shade, and glossed 
in some lights with green and purple reflections; the 
lower part of the nape, the back, scapulars and flanks, 
as far as behind the thighs, minutely pencilled and 
streaked with zigzag black lines on a white ground; 
from the scapulars arise some narrow elongated 
feathers, black in the centre and edged with white 
on the outer and grey on the inner web; the lesser 
wing-coverts are a uniform grey and the greater the 
same, but tipped with pale chesnut; the primary 
quills dark brownish grey; the speculum on the 
secondaries glossed with reddish purple or green, 
according to the ight in which it is seen; beyond 
this is a small patch of black, and the tips are white; 
the tertials are pointed, black in the centre, grey on 
the inner and nearly white on the outer edge; the 
tail-coverts ash-grey; the elongated feathers of the 
tail are very narrow and pointed and black in colour, 
the rest of the tail-feathers are dark in the centres, 
pale greyish, nearly white, at the edges; from the 
back of the head down each side of the neck to the 
breast is a narrow streak of white, the breast itself is 
white; the belly white, lightly pencilled with pale 
erey; the hinder part of the flanks white, tinged 
with pale buff; under tail-coverts black ; legs, toes, 
webs and claws black. During the summer and 
autumn change the beautiful white streak down the 
sides of the neck is obliterated, the whole of the 
