Mr. F. Moore on the known species of the genus Accentor. 289 



maries, with the wmglet hlack, as also the primaries, these last having 

 their unemarginated portion externally bordered with pale-grey ; tail 

 greyish dusky ; frontal feathers to above the eyes margined with 

 white, the lores blackish, and the entire under parts slightly em- 

 browned deep ash-colour as far as the vent, which is pale and tinged 

 with ferruginous, the under tail-coverts being deeper ferruginous, and 

 the hmd portion of the flanks dark ferruginous ; bill blackish ; feet 

 fleshy grey ; iris straw-colour." 



Length about 6 inches ; tail 2\ ; vdng 3^ ; bill to frontal feathers 

 3%ths ; and tarse ~ of an inch. 



10. Accentor Huttoni, Moore. 



Accentor atrogularis, Hutton (nee Brandt ?), J. A. S. Beng. xviii. 

 p. 811 (1849). Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 131. Bonap. 

 C. G. Av. p. 305. ' 



Hutton' s Accentor. 



Hah. Simla; Afghanistan. In Mus. East Tnd. Company. 



A. Huttoni. — " General colour above brown, the feathers centred 

 dusky, more rufesceut on the back, greyer on the nape, rump and 

 upper tail-coverts ; crown darker ; a broad line above the superciliar 

 streak, with the ear-coverts and throat dusky-black, the latter di- 

 \dded from the ear- coverts by a pale line proceeding from the base 

 of the lower mandible, and this with the entire supercilium and 

 the breast, of a imiform light rufescent sandy hue ; belly whitish, 

 the flanks streaked with dusky ; wing-coverts slightly tipped albes- 

 cent, forming slight cross-bands. Bill dusky, yellowish towards 

 gape, and feet pale." " Irides brown." 



Length 6 inches ; of wing 2|-ths ; tail 2\ ; bill to gape ^ths ; 

 and tarse -^ths of an inch. 



11. Accentor Altaicus, Brandt *. 



Accentor Altaicus, Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. St. Petersb. 

 (1841 ?). G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 187. Bonap. C. G. Av. 

 p. 306. 



The Altaic Accentor. 



Hah. Siberia. 



12. Accentor atrogularis, Brandt. 



Accentor utroaularis, Brandt, (nee Hutton ?), Bull. Sci. Acad. 

 Imp. S. Petersb. "(1841 ?). G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 187. 

 The Black-throated Accentor. 

 Hah. Siberia. 



"The species of this genus," remarks Mr. Yarrell, in his admi- 

 rable work on British Birds, "are very limited in number, only 

 five^ I believe, being at present known ; two are figured in this work 

 as belonging to England, two others are found in the north and east 



* Not having been so fortunate as to examine the descriptions of Dr. Brandt's 

 species, I am unable to describe them in this notice. 



