602 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
longer scapulars and the tertials, which are white; 
upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers white; belly and 
under parts white; the longer primary quills have no 
white at the tips, but there is a large spot of white a 
little way below the tip in the first two; the rest of 
these feathers are black, except a point near the 
base, which is grey; this colour increases in the 
shorter quills, the tips of which are white, those 
nearest the body having no black at all. Another 
_ specimen in my collection, shot at Exmouth in the 
~ mniddle of November, has the bill nearly all yellow, 
except a greenish dusky cloud about the projection 
of the lower mandible; the forehead, lore, chin, fore 
part and sides of the neck, breast, belly, flanks, tail- 
coverts and tail, white, except a very few feathers on 
the breast, which are slightly clouded with dusky ; 
the back and scapulars are gull-grey, except some of 
the longer scapulars, which are tipped with white ; 
the secondaries and tertials are gull-grey, tipped with 
white; the longer primaries are much the same, ex- 
cept that the black and white are both more pure 
and distinct and the tips are white. ‘In summer 
the adult has the whole of the head and neck white ; 
the breast and belly vividly suffused, like a sunset 
tint, with maize-salmon or rose-colour; the bill 
bright pure chrome-yellow; the irides are drab- 
erey; the feet intense canary-yellow.” * 
* © Zoologist’ for 1868 (Second Series, p. 1086). 
