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day, the differences of opinion leave the matter unsettled. Though excluded 

 from his Catalogue of the Turdida, Mr. Seebohm has placed the group with 

 ParidcB in his " History of British Birds," and it appears to me the only 

 natural position for it. 



Gen. Accentor. Hodgs. 



Bill straight, conic, sharp, of moderate length, high, rather wide at the base, 

 slightly notched at the tip, which is also very slightly bent down ; wings 

 moderate, the 3rd quill longest ; tail moderate, even ; legs and feet stout. 



680. Accentor immaCUlatUS, Hodgs., Icon, ined in Br. Mus. 

 Passeres, pi. 101 ; Gould, B. Asia, pi. 7 (1855) ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 286, No. 

 651; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 656. Accentor mollis, Blyth, 

 J: A. S. B. xiv. p. 581 ; id., Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 131 ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. 

 p. 306. The MAROON-BACKED ACCENTOR. 



Head and neck dark ashy ; lores and feathers round the eye dusky blackish ; 

 ear coverts dusky grey, shaded with olive brown ; cheeks dull ashy grey ; 

 upper back and scapulars maroon, passing into reddish brown on the lower 

 back and upper tail coverts, the latter washed with olive brown ; wing coverts 

 slaty grey with dusky bases ; primary coverts black ; primaries blackish, their 

 outer margin edged with pale grey forming a wing patch ; secondaries chest- 

 nut brown externally; tail dusky brown, the feathers edged paler exter- 

 nally ; throat and breast dull ashy grey ; abdomen and flanks chestnut brown ; 

 the middle of the abdomen creamy or ashy white ; under wing coverts and 

 axillaries ashy grey ; under tail coverts chestnut brown. Bill blackish ; 

 feet pale. 



Length. 5-2 to 5'6 inches ; wing 2-95 ; tail 2'i ; tarsus O'8 ; culmen 0*55. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas (Nepaul and Darjeeling). 



681. Accentor atrigulariS, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. 

 ii. p. 40; Hutton, J. A. S. B. xviii. p. 811 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Br. Mus. As. 

 Soc. p. 131; Gould, B. Asia, p. 10 (1858); Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 105; 

 Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 75; Scully, t. c. p. 569; Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, p. 423; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 656. Accentor Huttoni, Moore, P. Z. S. 

 1854, p. 119; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 288, No. 655; Sever tz., Str. F.iSjS, 

 p. 428; Scully, Str. F. 1876, p. 155. The BLACK-THROATED ACCENTOR. 



Above brown, the feathers dusky and rufescent on the back, showing a 

 striped appearance ; rump and upper tail coverts dull ashy, the bases of the 

 feathers dusky ; crown of head and nape ashy brown ; of lores, sides of face, 

 ear coverts, forecheeks and throat black ; a narrow frontal line of black, 

 extending above the eye along the sides of the crown ; a white streak from 

 behind the eye to the nape ; hindcheek and lower throat pale ochraceous 

 buff; wing coverts dusky, edged externally with reddish brown and tipped 

 with bullish white ; primary coverts dusky brown, narrowly margined with 



