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that figured by Temminck aud Schlegel. The latter bird is greyer 

 below, and has no stripes on the flanks. He suggests that there 

 may be two species in Japan, which appears very probable ; and I 

 have therefore separated the Hakodadi bird, as it seems to difl'er 

 from the true A. rubidus of the ' Fauna Japonica.' 

 Hah. Japan. 



Subsp. a. Accentor fervidus. 



Accentor rubidus {non T. 8,- S.), Whitehj, Ibis, 1867, p. 198; Gould, 

 ^.^s«a, part 23 (1871). 



Adult. General colour above chestnut-brown, the feathers of the 

 back with ashy-whitish edges and broadly streaked with black 

 down the centre; rump and upper tail-coverts nearly uniform 

 earthy brown, with faintly indicated dusky centres ; lesser and 

 median coverts like the back ; greater coverts dusky, externally 

 chestnut-brown, with fulvous tips to some of them ; bastard wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills dusky, externally chestnut-brown, the 

 inner secondaries edged all round with this colour; tail-feathers 

 brown, with dull reddish-brown margins ; crown of the head and 

 hind neck uniform smoky brown, as also the sides of the crown and 

 lores ; no eyebrow ; feathers round the eye and ear-coverts reddish 

 brown, with narrow shaft-lines of reddish white ; cheeks aud entire 

 under surface of the body dull ashy brown, a little overshaded with 

 rufescent brown on the throat and fore neck ; lower flanks reddish 

 brown, broadly streaked with chestnut in the centre of the feathers ; 

 thighs reddish brown ; under tail-coverts ashy with reddish-brown 

 centres, the edges slightly fulvescent ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries ashy, very slightly tinged with reddish ; quills below dusky, 

 inner edges ashy ; " bill brownish black ; legs, toes, and claws 

 brownish flesh-colour ; iris yellowish hazel " (//. Whitely). Total 

 length 6 inches, culmeu 0-55, wing 2-G5, tail 2-15, tarsus OS. 



Hab. Japan. 



a. d ad. sk. Hakodadi, Nov. 14, 186.5. Henry Whitely, Esq. [CI. 



b. Ad. sk. Hakodadi, Oct. 28, 1865. Henry Whitely, Esq. [C.J." 



3. Accentor montanellus. 



Motacilla montanella, Pallas, Heis. liiiss. Reichs. iii. p. 695 (1776) • 

 id. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 471 (1811). ' 



Siberian Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 456 (1783). 



Sylvia montanella, Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 526 (1790). 



Accentor montanellus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 2.31 (1815) ; Naum 

 Voff. Deufschl. pi. 92. fig. 2 (1822); Werner, Atlas, Insedivores, 

 pi. 71 (1827) ; Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. 101 (1^37) ; Gray, Gen B 

 1. p. 187 (1848) ; B^. Comp. i. p. 805 (1850) ; Middend. Sibir. Reis., 

 Zool. p. 172 (1851 ) ; Radde, Reis. .Sibir., T'og. p. 243 (18(i3) ; Bree, B 

 Eur. ii. p. 115, pi. (1867); L)yhovskiS( Parve.v, J. f. O. 1868, p. .334 • 

 Gray, Hand4. B. i. p. 233, no. 3322 (1869) ; LVi'tsch, Vog. Eur tab! 

 18. fig. 16 (c. 1870); Tristr. Ibis, 1870, p. 494; Goidd, B. Asia 

 part 23 (1871) ; Sicinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 361; Taczan. J.f. O 



