ACCENTORINiE. 289 



The Robin Accentor. 



Descr. — Forehead, crown, nape, ear-coverts, and chin brown ; 

 infra-orbital feathers tipped with whitish ; throat, sides of neck, 

 and shoulder of wings, dingy grey brown, the feathers of the 

 throat bhickish at the base ; back and rump ferruginous, centered 

 with dusky; wings dusky, margined exteriorly with ferruginous ; 

 lesser and greater coverts tipped with white ; tail dusky, margined 

 exteriorly with pale ferruginous ; breast and forepart of flanks 

 ferruginous, the latter streaked with dusky ; belly Avhite, tinged 

 with ferruginous on the Hanks posteriorly, vent, and margins of 

 the under tail-coverts, the latter centered dusky. 



Bill blackish ; feet pale reddish. Length 6 inches ; wing 3 ; 

 tail 2^ ; bill at front y\y ; tarsus |. 



This species has hitherto only been sent from Nepal by Mr. 

 Hodgson. It is most nearly allied to strophiatus. 



Other species recorded, besides the two European species, are 

 A. rnbiduSy Temm., from Japan; atriyularis, Brandt (if distinct 

 from Huttoni), from North Asia; A. montanellus, Pallas, from Eastern 

 Siberia, the type of Spermolegus, Kaup ; and A. Tetnminckii, Brandt 

 {montanellus, apud Temminck), from Eastern Europe and Siberia. 

 A. modularis is the type of Kaup's genus Tharrhaleus ; and 

 alpinus is the type of restricted Accentor. 



The Australian genus, Cinclosoma, comprises several very prettily 

 marked birds, the size of a small thrush, of a bright rufous colour, 

 more or less streaked, with the throat black, or white with black 

 markings ; the wing-coverts usually white-spotted, and the tail 

 white-tipped ; one species with unstreaked plumage, C. castanotus, 

 Gould, havinof a marked resemblance to Accentor immaculatus. 

 Ortlwnyx very closely resembles Cinclosoma in its plumage, but has 

 the tail feathers ending in a point or spine. 



The remaining families of the Ampelidce are all American. They 

 comprise the Mniotiltince, Plprince, Ampelince and Gymnoderinca of 

 Gray. The Mniotiltinje, or Bush-creepers, are the SylvicoUnoi 

 of Bonaparte, and are usually placed next the Titmice. Ihey are 

 peculiar to America, where they take the place of the Warblers of 

 the Old Continent. They are very varied in their plumage, some 

 being coloured like the Phi/lloscopince, others like Zosterops ; aad 



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