192 PARID^E. 



Above, including the crown of the head, reddish brown, streaked with dark 

 brown ; a broad creamy buff eye streak surmounting a ferruginous one, which 

 is continued backward to the occiput; above these a black streak on the 

 sides of the crown ; lores dull whity brown ; ear coverts black ; sides of neck 

 ashy grey, streaked with black ; cheeks and throat white, mottled with trian- 

 gular black spots; foreneck and breast deep ferruginous, forming a broad 

 pectoral band; centre of breast creamy white, the sides pale ferruginous 

 streaked with dusky ; under wing coverts creamy buff, washed with pale ferru- 

 ginous ; axillaries ashy ; wings dusky, margined with dark ferruginous, the 

 coverts tipped with albescent ; quills blackish, edged with rufescent externally ; 

 tail brown, margined with rufous. Bill black ; legs reddish brown ; irides dark 

 brown. 



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



Hob. The Himalayas, extending, to Nepaul and Sikkim, also into the 

 hills of Western Schzuen, Moupin and Kokonoor, and occurring more rarely 

 on the mountains of Tsenling. Jerdon says he obtained a specimen at Darjeel- 

 ing. It is recorded also from Kumaon and Nepaul. Breeds from May to 

 August in Sikkim and the naked ranges of the Himalayas. Nest placed on the 

 ground. Eggs, 3 4, spotless, sky blue. 



684, Accentor Jerdoni, Brocks, J. A. S. B. 1872, part 2, p. 327; 



Hume, Sir. F. 1876, p. 491 ; id., ibid, 1879, p. 105; Biddulpli, Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 75 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus., vii. p. 660. Accentor strophiatus, Hume 

 and Henderson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 234 (1878, nee Hodgs.) JERDON'S 

 ACCENTOR. 



Adult male. General aspect of upper surface streaked, the back ashy brown 

 with slight reddish edgings to some of the dorsal feathers, all of which are 

 broadly centred with black ; rump and upper tail coverts more uniform ashy 

 brown; wing coverts like the back, the median and greater series dark brown, 

 externally edged with paler brown and tipped with fulvous ; bastard wing, 

 primary coverts and quills blackish brown, externally margined with paler 

 brown, broader on the secondaries ; tail feathers brown, edged with ashy ; 

 crown of head dingy brown, darker than the back and washed with ashy ; 

 sides of the crown black, forming a distinct lateral streak ; lores black, sur- 

 mounted by a broad white streak which passes into pale cinnamon above the 

 ear coverts, which are uniform black ; sides of neck ashy grey ; cheeks and 

 throat white with a few black spots chiefly on the malar line ; foreneck and 

 breast pale cinnamon, forming a broad pectoral band ; abdomen white ; sides 

 of the body washed with pale cinnamon, browner on the lower flanks ; the sides 

 of the body streaked with blackish brown ; thighs ashy ; under tail coverts 

 white, mottled with dusky bases ; under wing coverts and axillaries ashy, those 

 near the edge of the wing mottled with dusky bases. 



