582 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
considerably forked, white at the base, with a broad 
black band towards the end; “the shafts of the first 
six primaries brownish black at the base, becoming 
eradually darker towards the extremity, where they 
are black in the first three, but in the fourth, fifth 
and sixth assimilate in colour to the feather at that 
part, which is white; the entire of the outer webs of 
the first five black; the inner webs with a broad 
edging of white, to within from one to two inches of 
the end, which part is black in the first three, but 
tipped with white in the fourth and fifth; in the 
sixth the inner web is white, the outer black, ex- 
cepting for three or four lines from the tip, where it 
is white, and again about an inch from the end, 
where a white spot of an oval form appears;”* the 
greater coverts of secondaries lead-colour, with deep 
white tips; chin, throat and sides of the face and 
neck white; breast white, clouded with ash-grey on 
the sides; the rest of the under parts white; legs, 
toes and webs flesh-colour. As to the full plumage, 
in which state, I believe, it has never been taken 
alive in England, Yarrell quotes Colonel Sabine as 
follows:—The bill one inch long, the base of both 
mandibles black as far as the angular projection of 
the under mandible, the remainder yellow; the irides 
dark, surrounded by a naked circle of bright ver- 
milion ; a small white speck beneath the eye, scarcely 
* Yarrell, vol. iu, p. 552. 
