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PAS8ERES. 



SYLV1IDJE. 



SYLVlfDJl. 







ACCENTOR COLLARIS (Scopoli*). 

 THE ALPINE ACCENTOE. 



Accentor alpinus\. 



ACCENTOR, Bechstein . Bill strong, broad at the base; the upper mandible 

 overlapping the lower and slightly notched near the tip. Nostrils basal, oblique 

 and linear. Wings moderate, more or less rounded ; the first feather very short, 

 the third generally the longest. Legs strong ; the tarsi feathered at the upper 

 end, and covered in front with several broad scales ; the outer toe joined at its 

 base to the middle toe ; the claw of the hind toe much the longest. 



BY the kindness of the late Dr. Thackeray, I am enabled 

 to give a figure of the Alpine Accentor from the female speci- 

 men killed in what was then the garden of King's College, 

 Cambridge, on the 22nd of November, 1822, and recorded 

 in the ' Zoological Journal' for 1824 (i. p. 134). At that 

 time two of these birds had been occasionally seen climbing 

 about the buildings or feeding on the grass-plots; and were 

 so tame that one of them was supposed to have fallen a 

 victim to a cat : the other was shot as stated, and the speci- 

 men is preserved at Eton. The species, however, had been 



* Sturnus collaris, Scopoli, Annus I. Historico-Naturalis, p. 131 (1769). 

 t Motacilla alj>!a, ,T. F. Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 957 (1788). 

 J Omithologisches Taschenbuch, i. p. 191 (1802). 



