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5. Accentor immaculatus. 



Accentor immaculatus, Hoclgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 

 pi. 101 « (no. 487) ; id. in Grays Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844) ; id. 

 P. Z. S. 1845, p. 34 ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. 

 p. 71, Apjy. p. 153 (1846) ; ' Horsf. <§• Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. 

 i. p. 361 (1854) ; Gould, B. Asia, part 7 (1855) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 

 p. 286(1863) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 230, no. 3317 (1869) ; David 

 (^ Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 181 (1877); Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 105. 

 Accentor mollis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 581 (1845) ; id. Cat. 

 B. Mus. As. Sac. p. 131 (1849) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. Api^. p. 8 

 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 306 (1850). 



General colour above olive-brown on the mantle, chestnut-brown 

 on the back, and shading off again into olive-brown on the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts slatj- grey with dusky bases, 

 the inner greater coverts slightly washed with chestnut near the 

 base ; bastard wing and primary-coverts black ; quills blackish, the 

 primaries externally pearty grey, the secondaries externally chestnut- 

 brown ; tail-feathers dujiky brown, externally edged with lighter 

 brown, ashy near the base ; head and hind neck slaty grey, faintly 

 mottled with dusky bases to the feathers ; lores and feathers round 

 the eye dusky blackish ; ear-coverts dark slaty grey, slightly washed 

 with olive-brown like the sides of the neck ; cheeks, throat, and 

 breast dull ashy grey, slightly washed with olive-brown, more 

 especiall}' on the sides of the breast ; flanks and abdomen bright 

 chestnut-brown, the centre of the abdomen creamy white tinged 

 with ashy ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy grey ; quills 

 dusky brown below, ashy along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 5 inches, ciilmen 0-55, wing 2-95, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-8. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas, ranging into Moupin and Western 

 Szechuen in China. 



a-e. Ad. sk. Nepal (Hodgson). India Museum. 



6. Accentor atrigularis. 



Accentor atrigularis, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. ii. p. 40 (1844) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 187 (1848); Hutton, J. A. S. Beng. xviii. 



p. 811 (1849) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 131 (1849) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 305 ; Goidd, B. Asia, part 10 (1858) ; Pelz. Ibis, 1868, 



p. 311; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 230, no. 3320 (1869); Severtz. 



Turkest. Jevotn. p. 66 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 91 ; Hume, 



Str. F. 1879, p. 105 ; Biddiilph, Ibis, 1881, p. 75 ; Sadly, t. c. 



p. 569 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, p. 423. 

 Accentor huttoni, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 119 ; Horsf. Sr Moore, Cat. 



B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 360 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 288 (1863) ; 



Severtz. Str. F. 1875, p. 428; Scully, Sir. F. 1876, p. 155. 



Adult male. General aspect of the upper surface striped ; back 

 and scapulars light brown, slightly shaded with ashy, and with dark 

 centres of blackish brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts dull ashy, 

 only slightly mottled with dusky bases to the feathers when the 



