ALPINE ACCENTOR. 249 



INSESSORES. S YL VIA D^E. 



DEXTIROSTRES. 





THE ALPINE ACCENTOR. 



Accentor alpinus. 



Accentor Alpinus, Alpine Accentor, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 72. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 247. 



JENTNS, Brit. Vert. p. 103. 



EYTON, Barer Brit. Birds, p. 11. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



A ccenteur des A Ipes, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 248. 



ACCENTOR. Generic Characters. Beak of moderate length, strong, 

 straight, conical, and pointed ; the edges of both mandibtes compressed, 

 upper mandible notched near the point. Nostrils basal, naked, pierced in 

 a membrane of considerable size. Wings the first feather almost obso- 

 lete, the second nearly as long as the third, the third the longest in the 

 wing. Legs strong; three toes before, and one behind; the outer toe 

 joined at its base to the middle toe ; the claw of the hind toe by much 

 the longest, and the most curved. 



BY the kindness of the Rev. Dr. Thackeray, I am en- 

 abled to give a figure of the Alpine Accentor from the spe- 

 cimen killed in the garden of King's College, Cambridge, 



