3°^ Lloyd's natural history. 



THE TRUE ACCENTORS. GENUS ACCENTOR. 



Accentor, Bechstj Orn. Taschenb., i., p. 191 (1S02). 



Type, A. collar is (Scop.). 



As has already been explained, the Alpine Accentors are 

 mountain-loving birds, with a differently formed wing to the 

 Hedge -Sparrows. As in the latter birds the sexes are alike, 

 but they appear to lmve a winter plumage, when the feathers 

 are paler-edged, and the summer plumage is gained by the 

 abrasion of these pale margins. 



I. THE ALPINE ACCENTOR. ACCENTOR COLLARIS. 



Accentor collaris (Scop.), Newt. ed. Yarr., i., p. 296 (1S71); 



Dresser, B. Eur., iii., p. 29, pi. 99 (1873) ; Sharpe, Cat. 



B., vii., p. C61 (1883); B. O. U. List Brit. B., p. 23 



(1883); Lilford, Col. Fig., Brit. B., pt. vii. (1888); 



Saunders, Man., p. 87 (1S89). 

 Accentor alpinus i Bechst.; Macg., Brit. B., ii., p. 258 (1839); 



Seeb., Brit. B., i., p. 501 (1883). 



Adult Male.— Light ashy-grey above, all the feathers broadly 

 streaked with black down the centre; rump more uniform ashy; 

 scapulars externally rufous, like the inner secondaries, which 

 are also broadly edged with rufous ; lesser wing-coverts ashy ; 

 median and greater coverts black, tipped with white, the 

 latter externally ashy-olive ; quills blackish, the secondaries 

 tipped with whity-brown, and externally whity-brown or light 

 rufous, the innermost ones rufous along both webs ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown, edged with ashy-brown, with a white tip to 

 the inner web of the outer feathers, rufous on the others; 

 head and neek like the back, and streaked with blackish 

 centres to the feathers, with a faintly indicated pale eye- 

 brow ; sides of face and sides of neck ashy-grey, as well as 

 the fore-neck and chest, enclosing the white cheeks and throat, 

 which form a white gorget, spotted or barred with lines of black; 

 breast and abdomen light ashy, as also the thighs, the vent 

 whiter; sides of body and flanks uniform cinnamon-brown, the 

 flanks edged with white and centred with blackish-brown; 



under tail COVertS white, with blackish centres ; under wing- 

 c'MMit and axillaries ashy, washed with rufous, the edge of the 



