1. ACCENTOR. 657 



plumage is disturbed ; wing-coverts duskj-, externally ruddy brown 

 sligbtly shaded with ashy, and with more or less distinct margins 

 of buffy-whitish endings to the greater and median series ; bastard 

 wing and primary-coverts dusky, narrowly margined with light 

 brown ; quills dusky brown, with pale margins of reddish brown, 

 ashy on the primaries, much broader on the secondaries, which are 

 ashy whitish round the ends ; tail-feathers dusky brown, narrowly 

 margined with ashy ; crown of head and nape ashy brown ; a nar- 

 row frontal line of black extending above the eye along the sides of 

 the crown ; lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, fore part of cheeks, and 

 throat black : from above the hinder part of the eye a distinct streak 

 of creamy white extending to the sides of the nape ; sides of neck 

 ashy ; hinder part of cheeks, lower throat, fore neck, and chest pale 

 ochreous buff; remainder of under surface white ; sides of the body 

 browner, relieved by narrow streaks of blackish brown ; under tail- 

 coverts white, with longitudinal centres of dusky brown ; under 

 wing-coverts aud axUlaries ashy, with longitudinal dusky centres ; 

 quills dusky below, ashy along the inner web ; " bill black, yel- 

 lowish at gape ; legs and feet fleshy ; iris brown " (SeuHi/). Total 

 length 5-3 inches, culmeu 0-4, wing 2*9, tail 2-45, tarsus 0'7. 



Obs. In the winter dress the black throat is very much obscui'cd 

 by the whitish margins to the feathers ; the crown is altogether 

 browner and not so grey as it is in summer ; and the ochraceous 

 colour of the fore neck and breast seems to vary considerably in 

 richness and extent. 



There can be no doubt as to the identity of A. huttoni and A. 

 atrigularis. I have compared a specimen from Kotegurh with 

 others in Mr. Seebohm's collection from Samarcand and Tur- 

 kestan. 



A female in Captain Wardlaw Hamsay's collection, collected by 

 Dr. Severtzoff in Turkestan, on the 1st of November, has the black 

 throat entirely obscured by whitish margins, so that it can only be 

 discovered by lifting the feathers : the ear-coverts and head are 

 much browner than in the male, but the fore neck and breast are 

 much richer in colour and of a more rufous-ochre than in the latter, 

 this bright colour extending also over the flanks. Total length 

 5-5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-8, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-7. 



Hah. The Altai mountains, Samarcand, and Turkestan, ranging 

 into Afghanistan and the North-western Himalayas in winter. 



a. [cJ]ad. sk. Central Asia. Gould Collection. 



b. S ad. sk. Tashkend, March 8, 18G6, Gould Collection. 



{Severtzoff). 

 c,d. Ad.sk. Afghanistan (Gn^^A). India Musemu. 



(Types of A. huttoni.) 



7. Accentor rubecnloides. 



Accentor rubeculoides, Moore, P. Z. S. 18-54, p. 118 (e.c Hodgs. 

 MSS.) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mns. i. p. 3(;] (18o4) ; 

 Gould, B. Asia, part 7 (18.j")) ; Jerd. B. Ltd. ii. p. 288 (1863); 

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