16' 



ACCEKTOB. 



brown , with indistinct darker streaks : tad t JA fa, o n dged 

 with rufous-brown ; rump and upper t^^jft^ . all the 

 bluish shaft-streaks : lesser * mg-cov or s grej ^ b ^7t e rtiarie S 

 other coverts blackish, tipped with white scapulars an 

 black, edged with ferruginous; the other quills darK 



Fig. 43.— Head of A. nepalensi 



narrowly edged aud tipped with rufous; tail dark brown, each 

 " r w b tipped with a spot, which is white on the «££*« 



^o^S^irno^tog^heg^e^^ 



^^■th about 7 , tail 2-8 ; wing 4 ; tarsus -95 ; bill from gape 



'" This snecies is allied to the European A. cOaru, from which it 

 differs i7K very richly coloured, and in haring the second 

 differs in Deing «l J whereas m .1. eoWarw 



! iml r ai d in Asia Minor an intermediate race is found A 



; !/,£ ^lo, , I-,, Turkestan, appears to me to be idenhea 



with A. nepalensis. A. , rythropygxus, Swmhoe, from 11 n a, ditteis 



from the present species in having very rufous upper tail-coverts, 



^■SS^NK Hnnalayas from Afghanistan and Gilgit to 

 SiVhim at very high elevations, Blanford recording this species 

 ^nm 14 000 feet. I have seen specimens from Sikhim killed in 

 ^°ery m^nth of the year, hut in Gilgit this Accentor is represented 

 to be merely a winter visitor. 



