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slightly edged on the secondaries and primaries with 

 light dull yellow; the tertials more "broadly margined 

 with dull rusty orange ; there is a streak of white on 

 the base of some of the primary and secondary 

 quills ; lesser wing-coverts dusky, slightly margined 

 with dull orange rusty, and tipped with dull white, 

 making a bar of that colour across the wings ; the 

 greater coverts dusky, almost black, tipped, those 

 farthest from the body with white and those nearest 

 to the body with dull rusty orange ; throat and 

 breast dull rusty orange ; belly and under tail- coverts 

 nearly white ; flanks dull rusty orange and white 

 mixed, and a few spots of dusky. 



Yarrell says the eggs are much like those of a 

 Chaffinch, white tinged with yellow and spotted 

 with dark red. 



SERIN FINCH, Fringilla Serinus. I have consider- 

 able doubt about the propriety of including this bird 

 in the Somersetshire list : I do so, however, on the 

 authority of one specimen which was killed in Taun- 

 ton, in January or February, 1866 : it was shown to 

 me by Mr. Haddon, of that town, on the 31st of 

 March, after it had been stuffed and put into a case. 

 I then had some doubt as to the identity of the 

 bird: it struck me at the time as so like a cross 

 between the Siskin and the Canary as scarcely to be 

 distinguished from it, and I thought it might be 

 some escaped pet, as it was shot while feeding with 

 some Sparrows in a back garden in the town. I have, 



