ALPINE ACCENTOR. 



ALPINE WAEBLEE. COLLARED STAEE. 



Accentor alpinus, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Motacilla alpina, GMELIN. 



Sturnus collaris, GMELIN. LATHAM. 



" moritanicus, GMELIN. LATHAM. 



Accentor A chanter cantn, to sing (a factitious word.) 

 Alpinus Alpine. 



FOE want of a vernacular name for this species, I am 

 compelled for the present, much against my will, to adopt, 

 as in some similar cases, one that I by no means approve 

 of, but I have done so only as a temporary thing, and in 

 hope of 'a good time coming,' when the Queen's English 

 shall 'enjoy its own again' a consummation much to be 

 wished by every lover of his country's tongue. 



This bird is not uncommon in Germany, France, Spain, 

 Switzerland, and Italy; and Temminck includes it among the 

 Asiatic species, as a native of Japan. It frequents the highest 

 parts of any alpine districts, as its name suggests; this at 

 least in summer, but in winter it seeks and finds a milder 

 temperature in the warm and sheltered valleys, and thus, like 

 the lowly and humble in life, escapes the severest of the 

 storms and tempests which the lofty and the aspiring are 

 necessarily exposed to, in the higher atmosphere in which 

 their lot is cast or their place chosen: in severe weather it 

 approaches farm-yards, villages, and houses. 



One of these birds, a female, was observed in the garden 

 of King's College, Cambridge, on the 23rd. of November, 

 1822, and obtained by the Provost, the Rev. Dr. Thackeray; 

 another, no doubt the male, was seen by him at the same 

 time, both together frequenting the grass-plots of the College 

 garden, and climbing about the buttresses of the venerable 

 building. A second was shot in a garden on the borders of 





