396 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 



whitish brown ; the back of the neck is pale brown, 

 slightly streaked with darkish brown ; the feathers 

 of the back and scapulars are dark dusky brown, 

 broadly margined with pale rusty brown ; the rump 

 white ; the tail-coverts white, with a few distinct 

 dusky bars ; the tail is pale rusty brown, the same 

 as the back, barred with dusky, the light, part 

 becoming white towards the base of the feathers; 

 the wing- coverts are dusky in the centre, broadly 

 margined with pale whitish brown; the primary 

 quills are very dark dusky, almost black, but much 

 paler on the middle and lower part of the inner web, 

 narrowly tipped with white, the shafts are white; 

 tertials are the same as the back, but the margins 

 are barred with dusky ; the chin is white ; the front 

 of the neck and breast is pale whitish brown, with 

 darker lines on the shafts of the feathers ; the flanks 

 the same, but rather paler ; the belly is white ; the 

 under tail- coverts and the feathers by the side of the 

 tail and part of the flanks are white, with longitudinal 

 dusky marks in the centre. 



The eggs are much like those of the Blacktailed 

 Godwit, but a little smaller ; of a pale yellowish 

 wood-brown ground colour, speckled and blotched 

 with clove-brown and umber-brown. 



EUFF, Machetes pugnax. This very peculiar bird 

 is an occasional autumn and winter visitor to our 

 county: the last I have heard of was recorded by 

 the Kev. Murray A. Mathew, in the 'Zoologist' for 



