602 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 



longer scapulars and the tertials, which are white ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers white ; helly 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 

 middle 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- 

 grey ; the feet intense canary-yellow." * 



* ' Zoologist ' for 1868 (Second Series, p. 1086). 



