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Collared Stare, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. part 1, p. 8 (1783). 



Alpine Warbler, Lath. Gen. Sijn. ii. part 2, p. 434 (1783). 



Sturnus moritaDus, Gm. Sijst. Nat. i. p. 804 (1788). 



Motacilla alpiua, Gtn. Si/st. Hat. i. p. 957 (1788). 



Accentor alpinus, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 191 (1802); Tenim. 



Man. d'Orn. i. p. 248 (1815); Naum. Voq. Deutschl. iii. p. 940, 



pi. 92. fig. 1 (1823) ; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 204 (1825); Werner, 



Atlas, Insecfivores, pi. 69 (1827) ; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 99 (1837) ; 



Macgill. Brit. B. ii. p. 258 (1839) ; Nordm. in Demid. Voy. Buss. 



merid. iii. p. 170 (1840) ; Selys-Lonqch. Faune Belye, p. 95 (1842) ; 



Yarrell, Brit. B. i. p. 219 (1843) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 187 (1848) ; 



Hewits. Brit. Ec/qs, i. p. 69, pi. 21. fig. 1 (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. B. 



Mus. As. Soc. p. "130 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 305 (1850) ; Horsf. ^ 



Moore, Cat. B. E.L Co. Mus. i. p. 358 (1854) ,• Jaub. S( Earth'.- 



Lapomm. Rich. Orn. p. 227 (1859) ; Linderm. Voq. Griechenl. 



p. 80 (1860) ; Poivys, Ibis, 1860, p. 140 ; Gould, B. Gt. Br. ii. 



pi. 54 (1862-73) ; Blasius, Ibis, 1862, p. 71 ; Gray, List Brit. B. 



p. 60(1863); Filippi, Viagg. Pers. p. 348 (1865); Giylioli, Ibis, 



1865, p. 53 ; Beftoni, Ucc. nidif. Lomb. i. pi. 72 (1865-70) ; Lil- 



ford. Ibis, 1866, p. 391 ; S7nith, Ibis, 1868, p. 439 ; Eegl. Sf Gerbe, 



'Orn. Eur. I p. 466 (1867); Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 114 (1869); 



Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 230, no. 3316 (1869) ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. 



tab. 20. fig. 14 (c. 1870); Ehces ^- Buckley, Ibis, 1870, p. 197; 



Salvad. Faun. Ital, Ucc. p. 91 (1871) ; Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 212 ; 



Hartinq, Handb. Br. B. p. 102 (1872) ; Brooke, Ibis, 1873, p. 240 ; 



Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. p. 501 (1883). 

 Laiscopus alpinus, Gloger, Handb. Naturg. p. 267 (1842). 

 Accentor major, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 285. 

 Accentor subalpinus, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 285. 

 Accentor collaris, Newt. ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 296 (1871) ; Dresser, 



B. Eur. iii. p. 29 (187.3) ; Irby, B. Gibr. p. 84 (1875) ; Cordeaux, 



Ibis, 1875, p. 177 ; Danf. i^ Harvie-Broum, t. c. p. 307 ; Blanf. 



East. Persia, ii. p. 202 (1876); Scdvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 60 



(1881) ; B. 0. U. List Brit. B. p. 23 (1883). 



Adult. General colour above light ashy, with paler margins to 

 some of the dorsal feathers, all of which are streaked with broad 

 black centres ; rump more uniform and not so distinctly streaked ; 

 scapulars externally rufous, with broad black central streaks, forming 

 a conspicuous shoulder-patch ; lesser wing-coverts ashy ; median 

 and greater series black, tipped with white spots, the inner greater 

 coverts externally brownish towards the base ; bastard wing and 

 primary-coverts black, with a white longitudinal spot near the end 

 of the outer web ; quills blackish brown, externally edged with pale 

 brown, the secondaries tipped with whity brown and margined ex- 

 ternallj' with whity brown or rufous ; the inner secondaries rufous 

 on both webs ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged with ashy, all with a 

 more or less rufescent spot at the end, whiter at the tip of the inner 

 web (this white spot most distinct on the two outer feathers) ; head 

 and neck a little more ashy than the back, and with indistinct dusky 

 centres to some of the feathers ; lores and a narrow line over the 

 eye ashy whitish ; sides of the crown clearer grey, marking a faint 

 eyebrow ; feathers below the eye and on the fore part of the ear- 

 coverts dusky, tipped with white spots ; rest of ear-coverts uniform 



