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The grey of the shoulders and lower back contrasts strongly 

 with the ferruginous tint on the upper back ; and the crown 

 of the head is in some specimens very distinctly streaked 

 with brown. 



131. Accentor jerdoni, Brooks. 



Common in the summer at elevations of 10^000 feet and 

 upwards^ where it breeds. It was not observed in winter. 

 Tliis is the species figured by Gould (B. Asia, pt. vii.) as 

 A. strophioius. A young bird just able to fly, shot towards 

 the end of July, has the upper plumage dark brown, broadly 

 margined with ferruginous, a party-coloured wing-bar, formed 

 by buff tips to the secondary-coverts and dark -brown tips to 

 the primaiy-coverts ; the whole supercilium is buff'y white ; 

 the lower parts are fawn-colour, almost white on the throat, 

 and strongly tinged with ferruginous on the breast ; most of 

 the feathers dark-centred. This is a much younger stage 

 than that described by Mr. Hume in ' Lahore to Yarkund.'' 



132. Accentor atrogularis, Brandt. 



Tolerably common during the winter ; leaves about the 

 23rd March. 



Agrees well with Jerdon^s description of A. huttoni, and 

 also with Gould's plate of ^. atrogularis, which latter name 

 has precedence if the two names refer, as they apparently do, 

 to one and the same species. 



133. Accentor fulvescens, Severtzoff? 



A species of Accentor was common in Gilgit during the 

 winter, which, in the absence of the type to compare with, 

 must stand under this name, though it neither agrees with 

 the plate nor the description given in Gould's ' Birds of 

 Asia,' part xxiii. [vide ' Stray Feathers,' vol. iii. p. 428), which 

 Dr. Severtzoff says is his A. fulvescens. 



Description. Sexes alike. Top of the head almost uniform 

 dull brown ; the rest of the upper plumage grey-brown ; the 

 feathers of the back indistinctly centred dull brown ; wings 

 and tail dull brown, with pale edgings ; two white wing-bars, 

 formed by tippings to the coverts ; no pale tips to the inner 

 webs of the tail-feathers, except a faint trace on the outermost 



