1. ACCENTOR. 063 



earthy brown ; sides of neck ashy grey, with a patch of whitish 

 feathers behind the ear-coverts ; cheeks and throat white, mottled 

 with spots and narrow cross lines of black ; fore neck and chest 

 uniform ashy brown ; centre of breast and abdomen rather lighter 

 ashy brown, becoming whiter towards the vent ; sides of body and 

 flanks uniform cinnamon-brown, the lower flanks edged with horny 

 whitish and centred with black longitudinal stripes ; thighs ashy 

 brown ; under tail-coverts white, with large black centres ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries ashy, with a pale rufescent tinge, the 

 outer greater coverts white barred with black : quills dusky below, 

 ashy along the inner web ; " beak blackish brown, yellowish at 

 base ; legs and feet cinnamon-brown ; claws black ; iris brown " 

 (Dresser). Total length 7-5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 4-15, tail 2-5, 

 tarsus 1. 



Bab. Central and Southern Europe ; has occurred in Heligoland, 

 and is occasionally seen in Great Britain. 



«. Ad. sk. {Englemd {Gould).] India Museum. 



b. Ad. sk. Europe. F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Savoy Alps. Edward Hargitt, Esq. [P.]. 



Subsp. a. Accentor erythropygius. 



Accentor alpinus (nee Gm.), Midd. Sihir. Beis., Zool. p. 173 (1851) ; 



Schrank, lieis. Amurl, Vog. p. .355 (1859). 

 Accentor erythropygius, Stcinh. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 124, pi. 9; Cab. J. 



f. 0. 1870, p. 457 ; Goiild, B. Asia, part xxiii. (1871) ; Swin/i. 



P. Z. S. 1871, p. 360 ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 187G, p. 144 ; 



David Sf Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 178 (1877): Blakist. &■ Pn/er, B. 



Japan, p. 153 (1882). ^ J ^ 



Accentor, sp., Seebohn, Ibis, 1879, p. 34. 



Head, neck, and breast smoke-grey ; lores and under eye mottled 

 with white ; throat for nearly an inch downwards white, with 

 narrow bars of black ; lesser and greater coverts and winglet black, 

 with a large spot of white tipping each feather ; secondary quills 

 black, margined for the greater part of their length with yellowish 

 brown, and broadly tipped with light chestnut, terminating with 

 white ; on the tertiaries the chestnut brightens and increases in 

 extent, and the terminal white spots are conspicuous ; primaries 

 blackish brown, edged with light yellowish brown, browner near 

 their bases and lightly tipped with white ; back light yellowish 

 brown, with broad brown centres to the feathers ; scapulars "brownish 

 chestnut, with a median streak of blackish brown and a small white 

 tip to each feather ; the yellowish brown of the back soon brightens 

 into brownish chestnut, which is rich and conspicuous on theupper 

 tail-coverts, the longest of which have black centres ; tail brownish 

 black, the outer rectrix with the greater part of its outer web 

 brownish chestnut, with a broad white tip to the inner web ; the 

 rest of the rectriccs except the two centrals have their outer webs 

 tipped with chestnut, their inner webs with white, and they are 



