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PASSERES. 



SYLVIII)^. 



HYLVIIDM. 



Accentor collaris (Scopoli*). 



THE ALPINE ACCENTOR. 



Accentor aljiinusj. 



Accentor, BcclisteinX- — Bill strong, broatl at the base; the upper niandilile 

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

 and linear. Wings moderate, more or less rounded ; the first 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 am 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 Journal' 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 

 80 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 



* Sturnus collaris, Scopoli, Annus I. Historico-Naturalis, p. 131 (1769). 

 t MotariUa alpina, J. F. Gmelln, Syst. Nat. i. p. 957 (178<S). 

 X Oruithologisches Taschenbuch, i. i>. 191 (1802). 



