ALPINE ACCENTOR. 



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INSESSOBES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



SYLVIAD^:, 



THE ALPINE ACCENTOR. 



Accentor Alpinus, Alpine Accentor, Fi. em. Brit. An. p. 72. 



,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 247. 



,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 103. 



,, ,, Eyton, Rarer Brit. Birds, p. 11. 



,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xv. 



Accenteur des Alpes, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 248. 



Accentor. Generic Characters. — Beak of moderate length, strong, straight, 

 conical, and pointed ; the edges of both mandibles compressed, upper mandible 

 notched near the point. Nostrils basal, naked, pierced in a membrane of 

 considerable size. Wings — the first feather almost obsolete, the second nearly 

 as long as the third, the third the longest in the wing. Legs strong : three 

 toes before, and one behind ; the outer toe joined at its base to the middle toe ; 

 the claw of the hind toe by much the longest, and the most curved. 



By the kindness of the Rev. Dr. Thackeray, I am ena- 

 bled to give a figure of the Alpine Accentor from the speci- 

 men killed in the garden of King''s College, Cambridge, on 

 the 22nd of November 1822. At that time two of these 



