TIIARHIIALEUS. 171 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Afghanistan and Gilgit to 

 Garhwal. Jerdon records this species from the Punjab Salt- 

 llange. This Accentor is a winter visitor to the Himalayas, 

 summering in Turkestan and other parts of Central Asia. 



717. Tharrhaleus fulvescens. The Brown Accentor. 



Accentor fulvescens, Severtz. Turl;e*t. Jerofn. pp. 66, 132 (1873) ; id. 



S. F. iii, p. 428; Biddulph, Ibis, J881, p. 75 ; *S'cw//y, Ibis, 1881, 



p. 569; Biddidph, Ibis, 1882, p. 281, pi. viii ; Shaiye, Cat. JB. M. 



vii, p. 655. 

 Accentor montanellus (Pall.), apud Scully, S. F. iv, p. 155 ; Hume, 



Cat. no. 655 his. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, and nape uniform dark brown, or 

 sometimes dark brown with the feathers edged paler; a broad 

 supercilium white or huffy white ; lores, ear-coverts, and under 

 the eye dark brown ; back and scapulars ashy brown, sometimes 

 tinged with fulvous, each feather with a broad dark brown streak ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts plain ashy brown ; wings and tail 

 brown, edged with fulvous ; the wing-coverts and tertiaries tipped 

 with huffy white ; lower plumage rich oehraceous buff, the flanks 

 with a few darker streaks. 



Bill black, brownish at base below ; iris very dark brown ; legs 

 and feet fleshy ; claws dusky, yellowish at tips (Scully). 



Length about 6 ; tail 2-6 ; wing 3 ; tarsus -8 ; bill from gape -6. 



T. montanellus, Pallas, from Lake Baikal and Amurlaud, differs 

 from the present species in having the back and scapulars rich 

 chestnut-brown, the feathers edged with pale ashy, and the breast- 

 fi -Mllicrs with partially concealed black bases. In both species the 

 colour of the supercilium is liable to variation from buff to white. 



Distribution. Gilgit and Sikhim in winter only. Mandelli pro- 

 cured this species in the country north of Sikhim. It summers in 

 Turkestan, Mongolia, and Southern Siberia. 



718. Tharrhaleus strophiatus. The Rufous-breasted Accentor. 



Accentor strophiatus, Hodys., Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 959 (1843) ; 



Bhjth, Cat. p. 131 j Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 360 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, 



p. 287 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 401 ; id. Cat. no. 654 ; Sharpe, Cat. 



B. M. vii, p. 658. 



Accentor multistriatus, David, A. M. N. H. (4), vii, p. 256 (1871). 

 Tharrhaleus strophiatus (Hodgs.), Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. 



ii, p. 113. 

 Phooching-pho, Lepch. 



Coloration. The whole upper plumage rufous-brown streaked 

 \\ith black: wings dark brown edged with rufous, the coverts 

 tipped with fulvous on the outer web; tail brown; lores, cheeks, 

 and ear-coverts black ; a broad supercilium, white in front of the 

 eve, deep ferruginous behind, bordered above by a black band ; 

 chin and throat white, spotted with black chiefly at the sides ; sides 



