1. ACCKNTOR. G55 



a,b.S^ >id' slf- Ainoorlaud. i'urclifised. 



c. c? ad. sk. Kultuk, south side of Lake Gould Collection. 



Baikal, April {Dyhowski), 



4. Accentor fulvescens. 



Accentor fulvescens, Sevcrfz. Turhest. Jcvotn. pp. 6G, 132 (1873) ; 



id. Sfr. F. 1875, p. 428 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 75 ; &«<%, f. c. 



p. 669 ; Biddul^ih, ILis, 1882, p. 281, pi. 8. 

 Accentor montanellus {non Pall.), Stoliczka, Sir. F. 1875, p. 220; 



Scully, Str. F. 1876, p. 155 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 91 ; Hume, 



Sfr. F. 1879, p. lOo. 



Adult male. General colour above very pale ashy brown, slightly 

 raottled with darker brown centres to the feathers ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts uniform ashy brown ; lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back ; median and greater coverts dusky, extcrnallj- ashy fulvous- 

 brown, and slightly tipped with whitish ; bastard wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills dusky, narrowly edged with ashy fulvous, the 

 primaries and inner secondaries with ashy whitish, the tips of the 

 latter also fringed with this colour ; tail-feathers dusky brown, 

 margined with light fulvous- brown ; crown of head more dusky 

 brown than the back, with a blackish line along the sides of the 

 crown, followed by a very distinct ej'ebrow of creamy white ; lores, 

 feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts black ; cheeks and under 

 surface of the body rich ochraceous buff, whiter on the throat and 

 down the centre of the abdomen ; sides of neck bluish grey ; sides of 

 the breast ashy olive-brown, the flanks slightlj' fringed with this 

 colour ; thighs a.shy, whitish behind ; under tail-coverts creamy 

 white ; the sides of the body nearly uniform, with only a few narrow 

 shaft-streaks of dark brown on the lower flanks ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries ashy ; quills dusky below, ashy fulvous along the edge 

 of the inner web ; "bill black, brownish at base ; legs and feet fleshy ; 

 claws dusky, yellowish at tips ; iris very dark brown " (ScuUt/). 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 0'5, wing 3, tail 2*6, tarsus 0'8. 



A specimen from Irkutsk in Mr. Seebohm's collection appears to 

 belong to the present species and not to A. montaneUus. It is not 

 so dark as the latter and has not the back rufous, but it is much 

 darker than an^- specimen of A. fulvescens which I have seen, being 

 rufescent underneath. It may be the young bird in its first 

 autumn plumage. 



Ilah. Central Asia, from Turkestan and Yarkand to the hills of 

 Northern Cashmere. 



It appears to me to be probablj' this species, and not A. monta- 

 nellus, which is said to have occurred in Sikhim. If this should 

 prove to be the case, the latter bird will be found not to occur 

 within Indian limits. 



a. d ad. sk. Gilgit, Feb. 14. Dr. Scullv fP.]. 



b. Ad. sk. (iilgit, Dec. 15. Major. J."Biddulph [C. 



c. Ad. sk. Yarkand [Chapman'). R. B. Sbarpe, Esq. [P, 



