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This, the largest of the Indian Accentors, appears to represent A. 

 alpinus of Europe, in the higher regions of the Himalayas. Its 

 European representative occasionally visits England, and is record- 

 ed as having been seen climbing adroitly round the buttresses 

 of a building. 



653. Accentor altaicus, Brandt. 



A. variegatus, Blytii, J. A. S. XII. 958 — Blyth, Cat. 725 — 

 HoRSF., Cat. 574 — A. Ilimalayanus, Blyth, — A. alpinus, apud 

 ViEiLLoT, Gal. pi. 15G, (lid. Moore) — Gould, Birds of Asia, 

 pt. X. pi. 14. 



The Himalayan Accentor. 



Descr. — Forehead, crown, occiput, neck, shoulders, and rump, 

 uniform dingy brownish grey ; back, scapulars, and tertiaries, rufous 

 brown, mottled with large black spots ; a light grey or whitish 

 eye streak ; wings with the primaries dusky, pale edged, and the 

 secondaries edged with brown, and pale tipped ; tail dusky, each 

 feather with a white spot at the tip of the inner web ; chin, throat, 

 and forcneck white, with some small black spots on the chin ; a 

 narrow brown pectoial band or gorget, beyond which is rufous, 

 bright on the breast, and the latter edged with white, increasing 

 on the lower abdomen ; lower tail-coverts white, with brown 

 streaks. 



Bill black ; legs reddish brown. Length about G inches ; wino- 

 3^ ; tail 2^ ; bill at front j% ; tarsus |. 



This species, which is also allied to alpinus, has been found 

 throughout the Himalayas, from Sikhim to the far North- West, and 

 is said to be common at Kussowlee in winter 



654. Accentor strophiatus, Hodgson. 



J. A. S. XII. 959— Blyth, Cat. 726— Horsf., Cat. 576— 

 Gould, Birds of Asia, Pt. YII. pi. 7 — Phooching-'pho, Lepch. 



The Eufous-breasted Accentor. 



Descr, — Above reddish brown, streaked with dark brown ; a 



broad eye streak, the first portion of which is white to the middle 



of the eye, surmounting a ferruginous streak continued backward 



to the occiput, and above this again is a black streak, forming the 



