ACCENTOR. 193 



5-3 inches; wing 2-6; tail 2-15; tarsus 07; culmen 0-45. 

 (Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 660.) 



Hab. N.-W. Himalayas and Cashmere. Recorded from Desoai plain, and 

 also from near Simla. 



685 Accentor altaiCUS, Brandt., Bull Acad. St. Petersb. i. 

 P 365 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 305 ; Gould, B. Asia. pt. x. (1858) ; Jerd., B. Ind. 

 ii. p. 287, No. 653 (1863) ; Servertz, Turkest. Jevotn, pp. 66, 133 ; id. t Str. 

 F- l8 7S P- 428; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 91 ; Hiune^ Str. F. 1879, p. 105 

 Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 74; Scully, t. c.p. 569; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. 

 p. 660. Accentor Himalayensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 187. Accentor 

 variegatus, Blyth,J. A. S. B. xii. p. 960. The HIMALAYAN ACCENTOR. 



Forehead, crown, occiput, neck, shoulders and rump uniform dusky ashy 

 brown ; in winter streaked with a faint eyebrow of greyish white ; lores, 

 feathers below the eye and ear coverts dusky, tipped very narrowly with 

 fulvous ; cheeks and throat white, spotted with black ; sides of the neck dull 

 ashy grey ; foreneck and breast ashy white, the feathers with light rufous 

 centres ; mantle and back rufous brown, with fulvescent margins and broad 

 centres to the feathers; scapulars and tertiaries rufous brown, mottled with 

 large black spots; upper tail coverts ashy with dark centres to the feathers; 

 under tail coverts the same ; lesser wing coverts ashy brown ; median series 

 black, tipped with white, forming a bar across the wing ; greater coverts 

 blackish brown, edged with fulvous externally and tipped with white ; bastard 

 wing, primary coverts and quills blackish brown, edged with ashy fulvous, the 

 secondaries margined and tipped with pale buff, the innermost edged with 

 rufous on both webs ; tail dark brown edged with ashy and tipped on the inner 

 web with white; breast and sides of the body white, broadly streaked with 

 rufous; lower abdomen unstreaked white; breast, axillaries and under wing 

 coverts very pale rufescent, edged with ashy whitish. Bill black ; legs reddish 

 brown. 



Length. 57 to 6 inches; wing 3-25 to 3-55; tail 2-3; tarsus 0-9; cul- 

 men o'55. 



Hab. Altai mountains, and throughout the Himalayas. Has been found 

 in the middle range of hills north of Mussoorie, also near Chumba, and at 

 Simla and Nepaul. It has also been found in Sikkim and at Kussowlie. 

 Accentor rufilaius occurs from Turkestan to the neighbourhood of Gilgit and 

 Northern Cashmere, and not unlikely will be found in the Himalayas. 



686. Accentor nipalensis, Hodgs., J. A. S. B. xii. p. 958; 



op. cit. xv. p. 42 ; Gould, B. Asia, pt. 7 ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 286, No. 652 ; 

 Hume and Henderson* Lahore to Yarkand, p. 234 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, 

 p. 105 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 664. Accentor cacharensis, 

 Hodgs. t P. Z. S. 1845, p. 34; id , Icon- ined. in Br.Mus. Passeres, pi. IOIA., 

 fig. i The LARGE HIMALAYAN ACCENTOR. 

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