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dish brown, varied with black, and tipped with a spot of 

 white ; upper surface of tail-feathers dark brown, tipped with 

 buff: chin, throat, and front of the neck, dull white, with a 

 small black spot on each feather ; chest dark grey ; the breast 

 and flanks varied with chestnut-coloured patches : under tail- 

 coverts dark greyish brown, edged with dull white ; under 

 surface of tail-feathers ash grey, tipped with dull buffy white : 

 legs and toes orange brown ; claws black. 



Length of the bird described six inches and a half. From 

 the carpal joint of the wing to the end of the lorgest wing- 

 feather three inches and five-eighths : the first feather very 

 short, the second feather longer than the fourth, the third 

 the longest in the Aving. 



The females do not differ in plumage from the males, ex- 

 cept that their colours are not so bright. 



The species of this genus are very limited in number, only 

 five, 1 believe, being at present known. Two are figured 

 in this work as belontvinw to Ensfland : two others are found 

 in the North and East of Europe ; and a fifth has been re- 

 ceived from the Himalaya Mountains. M. Temminck in- 

 cludes the Accentor alpmus in his Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Japan, and it will be remembered that country is intersected 

 by ridges of mountains. 



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