658 timeliidj:. 



Peh. Ibis, 1868, p. 311; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 231, no. 3327 

 (1869) ; Hume l^- Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 234 ; Hume, Str. F. 

 1879, p. 105. 



Adult male. General aspect above broadlj- streaked, except on 

 the head ; mantle and back ruddy brown, all the feathers broadly 

 streaked with black down the centre ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 more uniform ruddy brown, the latter with indistinct dusky bases ; 

 lesser and median wing-coverts ashy grey, the latter tipped with 

 a bar of hoary white ; greater coverts blackish brown, externally 

 broadly edged with ruddy brown like the back, inclining to whitish 

 at the tips ; bastard wing and primary-coverts dusky, externally 

 ashy brown, inclining to greyish on the edges ; quilLs dusky brown, 

 the primaries edged with ashy greyish, the secondaries more broadly 

 with ruddy brown, and fringed with whitish at the tips ; tail- 

 feathers brown, with dusky cross bars under certain lights, margined 

 with fulvous-brown, the outermost feather narrowly edged and 

 fringed at the tip with whitish ; head and hind neck, as well as the 

 entire side of the face, throat, and foro neck uniform ashy brown, 

 very slightly mottled with dusky bases to the feathers of the crown, 

 which shows when the feathers are disturbed ; the lores, cheeks, and 

 throat rather paler ashy than the crown ; chest and breast bright 

 chestnut, forming a broad band ; remainder of under surface creamy 

 white ; the flanks fulvous, broadly streaked with blackish brown ; 

 thighs ashy grey ; under taU-coverts creamy buff ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white, the greater series more ashy ; quills 

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

 length 5-8 inches, culmeu 0-6, wing 2-9, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-9. 



Obs. The specimen from Cashmere, collected by Dr. Bellew, is 

 much paler rufous on the breast than Sikhim examples. 



Hah. Throughout the Himalayas, extending into Ladakh. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Cashmere (Dr. Belleic). India Museum. 



c. cJad.sk. Native Sikhim (3/rt>«:?eW). A. O. Hume, Esq. 



8. Accentor strophiatus. 



Accentor strophiatus, Hodgs. Icon. mfd. in Brit. 3Ius., Passeres, 



pi. 101 (nos. 413, 414) ; id. J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 959 (1843) ; id. 



in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844) ; id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 34 ; Gray, 



Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 72 (1846) ; id. ^ Mitch. 



Gen. B. i. p. 187, pi. 51 (1848 ) ; Bh/th, Cat. B. Mus. As. Sac. 



p. 131 (1849) ; Bp. Camp. i. p. 305 (1850) ; Horsf. Sr Moore, Cat. 



B. B.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 360 (1854) ; Gould, B. Asia, part 7 (1855) ; 



Jerd. B. Lid. ii. p. 287 (1863) ; Pelz. Ibis, 1868, p. 311 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 231, no. 3.325 (1869) ; Hume, Kests S,- Eggs Ind. 



B. p. 408 (1873); Brooks, Str. F. 1876, p. 278; Hume, Str. F. 



1879, p. 105. 

 Accentor multistriatus, David, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vii. 



p. 2.56 (1871); Swinh. P.Z.S. 1871, p. 360 ; Prjer. in Daicson 



Boideys Om. Misc. ii. p. 187 (1877) ; David S^ Oust. Ois. Chin^, 



p. 179 (1877). 



Adult mnl-c. General aspect of upper surface streaked ; the entire 



