1. ACCENTOll. 661 



Adult. General aspect of upper surface particoloured, themantlc and 

 back reddish brown, with fulvescent margins and broad black centres 

 to the feathers ; lower back ashy brown, broadly though indistinctly 

 streaked with black ; rump uniform ashy ; upper tail-coverts ashy, 

 with dusky black centres to the feathers, the longer ones rirfescent ; 

 scapulars like the back ; lesser wing-coverts ashy brown ; median 

 series black with a white bar along the tip ; greater coverts blackish, 

 externally ashy fulvous, rufous towards the ends, which are tipped 

 ■with a white spot; bastard wing, primary -coverts, and quills 

 blackish brown edged with ashy fulvous, the secondaries margined 

 and tipped with paler buff, the innermost edged with rufous on 

 both webs ; tail-feathers dark brown edged with ashy, and having 

 a conspicuous spot of white at the end of the inner web ; head and 

 hind neck nearly uniform dusky ashy brown, with shghtly indicated 

 darker centres to the feathers ; a faint eyebrow of ashy fulvous, 

 inclining to greyish white above the ear-coverts ; lores, feathers 

 below the eye, and ear-coverts dusky, tipped with minute points of 

 buffy white, the rest of the ear-coverts earthy brown, with faintly 

 indicated pale shaft-lines ; checks and throat white, plentifully 

 mottled with black spots ; sides of neck dull ashy grey ; remainder 

 of under surface mottled ; the fore neck, breast, and sides of the 

 body ashy whitish, with light rufous centres ; lower breast ashy 

 whitish, purer on the abdomen ; thighs light ashy ; under tail- 

 coverts white, mottled with rufescent or black centres to the 

 feathers ; axillaries and under wing-coverts very pale rufescent, 

 edged with ashy whitish, the outer wing-coverts dusky, edged with 

 ashy ^vhite ; quills dusky below, pale ashy rufous along the inner 

 web. Total length 5'7 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 3'o5, tail 2"3, 

 tarsus O-y. 



Obs. Some specimens have the head brown like the back, and 

 broadly mottled with blackish streaks. These are probably birds 

 killed in winter, the plumage representing the same seasonal change 

 as in A. rnodularis. 



Hah. Altai mountains, and probably across the mountains of 

 Southern Siberia as far as Lake Baikal : throughout the Himalayas. 

 I have compared a specimen from the Altai mountains in Mr. See- 

 bohm's collection with Himalayan examples, and they are clearly 

 identical. 



a. Ad. sk. Near Chumba. Capt. St. Pinwill [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Middle range of hills E. W. Oates, Esq. 



north of Mussoorie 

 {Hume). 



c. Ad. sk. Simla, November 1. A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



d. e. Ad. sk. Nepal (Hodyson). India Museum. 



11. Accentor coUaris. 



Sturnus coUaris, Scoj). Ann. i. p. 131 (1769). 



Fauvette des Alpes, Daubent. PI. Enl. vi. pi. 068. fig. 2 ; Month. 

 Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 156, pi. 10 (1778). 



