320 BIRDS OP SOMERSETSHIRE. 



The adult male differs in having two half circular 

 dark brown bands down the sides of the throat from 

 the ear-coverts, and has a black patch at the bottom 

 of the bands on the front of the neck ; there are no 

 spots on the breast; the legs, toes and claws are 

 pale brown. 



The eggs are of "a yellowish or dull orange- 

 coloured white, blotched or speckled with umber- 

 brown."* 



As far as Somersetshire is concerned this finishes 

 the Easorial Order. I have tried in vain to find 

 any record of the Struthionidse or Bustards, although 

 I should think the Great Bustard at all events must 

 have occurred on some of the open ground on the 

 top of the Mendips between Bath and Wells and 

 along the Wiltshire boundary. 



ORDER GKALLATOBES. - Family CHARADRIDJE. 



The numerous Order at which I have now arrived 

 the Grallatores, Stilted birds, or as they are more 

 commonly called, "Waders," leads us to rather 

 different scenes, for instead of the hedge-rows and 

 corn-fields, gardens, plantations, shrubberies and 

 old buildings, where we have had to seek for the 



* Yarrell, vol. ii., p. 415. 



