286 Zoological Society : — 



A. nipalensis. — " Newly-moulted adults have the upper parts nearly 

 as in A. modularisy but the dark colour predominating, and the stria- 

 tion of the head and neck obsolete, or nearly so, these parts, with the 

 ear-coverts and breast, being of an almost uniform dark brownish- 

 grey ; throat white, spotted with dusky-black, which forms two 

 cross-bars on each feather, their extreme tips being greyish ; belly 

 and flanks bright dark ferruginous, mingled with the hue of the 

 breast along the middle of the former ; under tail-coverts dusky, 

 tinged with ferruginous, and laterally margined with white ; the 

 feathers of the back are greyish-brown, with broad dark centres, or they 

 may be described as blackish, with brown lateral margins, tinged with 

 ferruginous towards and upon the scapularies ; wings dusky-black, the 

 tertiaries broadly margined with ferruginous, the other large alars 

 slightly so, and all having a spot of this colour at the extremity of 

 their outer edge ; wing-coverts having a white spot at the tip of 

 their exterior webs, and the small feathers near the bend of the wing 

 coloured like the head ; tail brownish-black, tipped with brown, the 

 terminal spot of the inner web of each feather successively more 

 albescent to the outermost ; upper tail-coverts long, and brown with 

 a dark central streak ; bill dusky, the lower mandible yellow except 

 at tip ; legs reddish-brown. In worn plumage, the margins of all 

 the feathers have more or less disappeared, and what remains of 

 them is faded in hue ; the conspicuous white spots on the wing- 

 coverts, and ferruginous margins of the tertiaries, being completely 

 abraded, the former leaving a semicircular sinus, as if artificially cut 

 away. The young have the clothing plumage of the usual flimsy 

 texture, the under parts coloured like the back, with no ferruginous 

 on the belly, the spots on the wing-coverts are larger and less purely 

 white; and the ferruginous on the scapularies and wing-coverts 



Length about 7 inches ; of wing 3f inches ; tail 2f ; bill to gape 

 f ths ; and tarse yf ths of an inch. 



This species appears to represent A. alpinus on the Kachar region 

 of Nepal. 



3. Accentor variegatus, Blyth. 



Accentor himalayanus*, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 187. 



Accentor variegatus^ Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 958 (1843) ; 

 Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 131. G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. 

 p. 187. Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 30.5. 



Accentor alpinusy Vieill. Gal. des Ois. t. 156 (nee Gmel.). 



The Variegated Accentor. 



Hah. Sikim ; Kasouli ; Nepal (No. 964, Hodgson's Catalogue). 



A. vaiiegatus. — " Forehead, crown, occiput, neck, shoulder of the 

 wings, and rump dingy grey-brown, with an inconspicuous lighter 

 greyish eye-streak ; throat and fore-neck white, with small round 

 spots disposed as in alpinus ; ear-coverts streaked with fulvescent, and 



* This name was changed to variegatus by Mr. Blyth, as the other Indian 

 snccies of this genus are also found in the Himalayas. 



