6G0 TIMELIID^. 



9. Accentor jerdoni. 



Accentor etrophiatus, Hume ^- Henclers, Lahore to Yarh. p. 234 



(1873, nee Hochjii.). 

 Accentor jerdoni, Brooks, J. A. S. Benq. 1872, part 2, p. 327 ; Hume, 



Sir. F. 1876, p. 491 ; id. ibid. 1879, p. lOo ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, 



p. 75. 



Adidt male. General aspect of upper surface streaked, the back 

 ashy brown, with slight reddish edgings to some of the dorsal 

 feathers, all of which are broadly centred with black ; rump and 

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

 back, the median and greater series dark brown, externally edged 

 with paler brown and tipped with fulvous ; bastard wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish brown, externally margined with paler 

 brown, broader on the secondaries ; tail-feathers brown edged with 

 ashy ; crown of head dingy brown, darker than the back and washed 

 with ashy ; sides of the crown black, forming a distinct lateral 

 streak ; lores black, surmounted by a broad white streak, which 

 passes into pale cinnamon above the ear-coverts, which are uniform 

 black ; sides of neck ashy grey ; cheeks and throat white, with a 

 few black spots, chiefl}' on the malar line : fore neck and breast pale 

 cinnamon, forming a broad pectoral band ; abdomen white ; sides of 

 body washed with pale cinnamon, browner on the lower flanks ; the 

 sides of the body streaked with blackish brown ; thighs ashy ; under 

 tail-coverts white, mottled with dusky bases ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries ashy, those near the edge of the wing mottled with 

 dusky bases ; quills dusky below, ashy along the edge of the inner 

 web. Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 'I-Q, tail 2-15, 

 tarsus 0-7. 



Young. Similar to that of A. stropliiatas, but rather paler. 



Hah. North-western Himalayas and Cashmere. 



a. Juv. sk. Deosai Plain, July. Major J. Biddulph [C.l. 



b. (S ad. sk. Cashmere, May 17. Major J. Biddulph [CJ. 



c. Imm. sk. Cashmere. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



d. e. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill [P.]. 



10. Accentor altaicus. 



Accentor altaicus, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersh. i. p. 36.5 (1843) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 187 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 305 (1850) ; 



Gould, B. Asia, part x. (1858) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 287 (1863) ; 



von Pelz. Ibis, 1868, p. 311 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 230, no. 3319 



(1859); Cab. J. f. O. 1870, p. 456; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. 



pp. 66. 133 ; id. Str. F. 1875, p. 428 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 91 ; 



Taczan. Bidl. S<;c. Zool. France, \%1^, p. 144; Hume, Str.F. 1879, 



p. 105 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 74 ; Scully, t. c. p. 569. 

 Accentor himalavauus, Blyth, J. A. S. Bene/, xi. p. 187 (1842). 

 Accentor'variegatus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 960 (1843) ; id. Cat, 



B. 3Ius. As. Soc. p. 131 (1849) ; Horsf. <§■ Moore, Cat. B. F.I. 



Co. Mug. i. p. 859 (1854). 



