304 SYLVIID^E. 



different thing. Those ornithologists who have adopted the 

 term Hedge-Accentor, which roused Waterton's ridicule, 

 need reminding that some high authorities, with no little 

 show of reason, deny that this species is an Accentor at all, 

 and for its reception Vieillot, in 1816, founded a genus Pru- 

 nella, and Dr. Kaup, in 1829, a genus Tharrhaleus. 



The bill is dark brown, but lighter at the base ; irides 

 hazel : head, nape, and sides of the neck, bluish-grey, 

 streaked with brown, except behind and below the ear-coverts, 

 where the grey alone prevails; back and wings reddish-brown, 

 streaked with dark brown ; upper tail-coverts plain hair- 

 brown ; primaries and tail dusky brown ; tertials margined 

 with reddish-brown ; chin and throat grey ; breast and belly 

 buffy- white ; sides and flanks pale brown, with dark streaks ; 

 wings and tail beneath, greyish-brown ; the tail slightly 

 forked : legs and toes orange-brown ; claws black. 



The whole length rather more than five inches and a half. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the fifth and longest 

 primary, two inches and three-quarters ; the second a little 

 longer than the seventh, but shorter than the sixth ; the third, 

 fourth and fifth feathers nearly equal. 



Females resemble the males, but are a little more spotted 

 on the head and beneath. The young before their first 

 moult have the throat greyish- white, varied with small darker- 

 coloured spots, and the general colour of the other parts 

 darker, the feathers above being tipped with rufous. 



The figures below represent the foot of Accentor alpinus, 

 and the breast-bone of A. modularis. 



