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PASSERES. 



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sYr.vin>A<. 



Accentor collaris (Scopoli*). 

 THE ALPINE ACCENTOK. 



Accentor alplnus^. 



Accentor, Bechstein J. — Bill strong, broad at the base ; the upper mancliT)le 

 overlapping the lower and slightly notched near the tip. Nostrils basal, oblique 

 and linear. Wings moderate, more or less rounded ; the fii'st feather very short, 

 the third generally the longest. Legs strong ; the tarsi feathered at the upper 

 end, and covered in front with several broad scales ; the outer toe joined at its 

 base to the middle toe ; the claw of the hind toe much the longest. 



By the kindness of the late Dr. Thackeray, I ara enabled 

 to give a figure of the Alpine Accentor from the female speci- 

 men killed in what was then the garden of King's College, 

 Cambridge, on the 22nd of November, 1822, and recorded 

 in the 'Zoological Jom-nal ' for 1824 (i. p. 134). At that 

 time two of these birds had been occasionally seen climbing 

 about the buildings or feeding on the grass-plots, and were 

 so tame that one of them was supposed to have fallen a 

 victim to a cat : the other was shot as stated, and the speci- 

 men is preserved at Eton. The species, however, had been 



* Sturniis collarisi, Scopoli, Annus I. Historico-Naturalis, p. 131 (1709). 

 t MotaciUa aJpina, J. F. Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. '.t.57 (1788). 

 t Oruithologisches Taschenbuch, i. j). 191 (1802). 



