ACCENTOR. 191 



paler brown; quills dusky, margined with pale reddish brown, ashy on 

 the primaries, and much broader on the secondaries, which are tipped with 

 bumsh white ; tail dusky brown, margined on the outer web with ashy ; 

 foreneck and breast pale ochraceous buff ; rest of the under surface of the 

 body white ; the flanks streaked with dusky ; under tail coverts white, streaked 

 with dusky ; under wing coverts and axillaries ashy with longitudinal dusky 

 centres. Bill black ; nape yellow; legs and feet" fleshy ; iris brown. 



Length. 5*4 to 6 inches ; wing 2'8 to 2-9; tail 2-45 to 2-5; tarsus 07; 

 culmen 0*4. 



Mr. Sharpe observes that in the winter dress the black throat is much 

 obscured by whitish margins to the feathers, and that the crown is altogether 

 browner and not so grey as in summer ; the ochraceous colour of the foreneck, 

 too, seems to vary considerably. 



Hal. The Altai mountains, Samarkand and Turkestan, ranging into 

 Afghanistan and the North-Western Himalayas in winter. According to 

 Jerdon it has been found near Simla, and also in the Punjab salt range. 



682. Accentor rubeculoides,^^, P. z.S. 1854, p. u8 ; Gould, 



B.Asia, pt.7 (1855) ; Jerd., B. hid. ii.p. 288, No. 656; Hume and Henderson, 

 Lahore to Yarkand,^. 234; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 105. The ROBIN 

 ACCENTOR. 



Crown of the head, nape, ear coverts, entire sides of the face and foreneck 

 uniform ashy brown, the infra-orbital feathers tipped with whitish ; lores, cheeks 

 and throat paler ashy brown than the crown ; mantle, back, scapulars and 

 rump ferruginous, all the feathers with mesial dusky centres ; lesser and 

 median wing coverts ashy grey, the latter tipped with hoary white ; greater 

 coverts blackish brown, edged externally with ferruginous ; primary coverts 

 dusky, edged externally with greyish ; primaries dusky brown, edged with 

 greyish, the secondaries edged with pale ferruginous and tipped with white ; 

 tail dusky, margined externally with pale ferruginous, the outermost feathers 

 very narrowly edged and tipped with fulvous white; foreneck and breast bright 

 chestnut, forming a broad band; rest of under surface creamy white, the flanks 

 broadly streaked with dusky ; under wing coverts white ; under tail coverts 

 creamy buff. Bill blackish ; feet pale reddish. 



Length. 4-9 to 5-5 inches ; wing 2-45 ; tail 1-85 ; tarsus O'8 ; culmen 0-5. 



Hab. Throughout the Himalayas, extending to Ladakh, Cashmere and 

 Native Sikkim. Kumaon is recorded as a locality. 



683. Accentor Strophiatlis, Hodgs., Icon ined. in Br. Mus. 

 Passeres, pi. IOI ; id., J. A. S. B. xii. p. 959; Blyth, Cat. B. Br. Mus. As. 

 Soc. p. 131 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 305 ; Gould, B. Asia, pt. 7 (1855); Jerd , B. 

 Ind. ii. p. 287, No. 654; Hume, Nest and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 408; Brooks, Sir. 

 F. 1876, p. 278 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 105 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. 

 p. 658. The RUFOUS-BREASTED ACCENTOR. 



