1. ACCENTOR. 665 



Adult male. General aspect of upper surface mottled ; the back 

 ochreous brown, with paler edges to the feathers, which are broadly 

 centred with black, the hind neck and mantle somewhat shaded over 

 with sooty brown ; scapulars externally chestnut-brown ; lesser 

 wing-coverts sooty brown washed with fulvous-brown ; median and 

 greater coverts black, tipped with white spots ; bastard wing and 

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

 tip of the outer web ; quills blackish brown, the primaries exter- 

 nally edged with reddish brown, the secondaries broadly washed 

 with chestnut on the outer web, the innermost on both webs and 

 having a whitish s|)ot at the ends, the other quills showing a pale 

 rufous spot near the tip of the outer web ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts ochraceous brown with black centres, the long upper tail- 

 coverts chestnut, centred with black ; tail-feathers blackish brown, 

 edged with pale rufous-brown, with a pale rufous spot at the tip of 

 the inner web, and with a larger white spot on the four outer 

 feathers ; crown of head and hind neck sooty brown, with obscure 

 dusky black centres to the feathers, the hind neck washed with dull 

 ashy ; lores blackish, mottled with pale fulvous tips ; eyebrows 

 feebly indicated by a slight ashy shade on the sides of the crown ; 

 feathers round the eye and below it minutely spotted with pale ful- 

 vous tips to the feathers ; ear-coverts and cheeks dusky brown, 

 washed with lighter brown, clearer and more ochraceous on the 

 hinder part of the latter ; sides of the neck sooty brown ; throat 

 white, mottled with transverse black spots ; fore neck and chest 

 ashj', washed with chestnut on the sides of the latter ; breast and 

 abdomen lighter ashy, varied with narrow white cross lines, before 

 which is a narrow subterminal dusky line ; sides of the bod}'^ deep 

 chestnut, the flanks edged with white and broadly streaked with 

 black ; thighs ashy brown ; under tail-coverts reddish brown, with 

 broad white ends ; under wing-coverts dull ashy, the lower series 

 pale rufous edged with whitish, like the axillaries ; the coverts near 

 the edge of the wing blackish, narrowty edged with whitish bars ; 

 quills below dusky, inner edges ashy. Total length 6 inches, cul- 

 men 0"6, wing 3-65, tail 2-6, tarsus 1. 



Younrj. Mottled all over as in other species of this genus, and 

 much duller in colour than the adults. The black centres to the 

 dorsal feathers are verj- stronglj- pronoimccd, the edges being ochra- 

 ceous buff, more distinct on the lower back and rump ; the chestnut 

 external margins to the scapulars are not indicated in the young 

 bird, but the quills are broadly edged and tipped with rufous, and 

 the spot near the end of the outer webs is very plainly marked ; the 

 white spots on the tail are tinged witli rufous ; the throat is dingy 

 brown, mottled with yellowish-buff margins to the feathers ; the 

 rest of the under surface is dull ochreous, thickly mottled with 

 blackish centres to the feathers. 



Hah. Himalayan mountains. 



a. 2 ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. St. Pinwill 



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