148 ACCENTOR 



$ ad. (Mongolia). Crown and nape ashy grey ; rest of the upper parts 

 olivaceous brown, the feathers on the rump tipped with rufous ; quills dark 

 ash, the secondaries bluish ash, the primaries with the outer web towards 

 the end pale bluish ash, and at the base broadly margined with dark golden 

 orange ; tail dark ashy, margined with golden brown and conspicuously 

 tipped with white ; lores blackish, sides of head and throat ashy brown, 

 the feathers narrowly tipped with dull white ; rest of under parts earthy 

 brown, the lower abdomen and under tail-coverts pale rusty red ; bill 

 black ; legs rufous ; iris yellowish white. Culmen 078, wing 4*15, 

 tail 5'7, tarsus T42 inch. 



Hob. South-eastern Mongolia, Western China, Szechuen, and 

 Kansu, where it is resident passing the summer in the 

 mountains as high as 11,000 feet and wintering at lower 

 altitudes. 



It resembles Pterorhinus davidi in general habits and note and 

 like that species frequents bush-covered localities in the 

 mountains and mountain valleys. It is sociable and usualty 

 seen in small parties of 4 to 7 and creeps and climbs about the 

 bushes with the greatest ease. Its call-note resembles that of 

 P. davidi but when alarmed it utters a note like prys,prys, prys. 

 In summer it feeds chiefly on the berries of a species of Lonicera. 

 Its nest is usually placed in a barberry bush as high as 7 feet 

 above the ground or lower, and is constructed of strips of birch 

 and Lonicera bark, lined with fine roots, and is a loose careless 

 structure. The eggs, usually 4 in number, are blae green 

 marked at the larger end with blackish brown dots, spots, and 

 scratches. 



ACCENTOR, Bechst. 1802. 



210. ALPINE ACCENTOR. 



ACCENTOR COLLARIS. 



Accentor collarls (Scop.), Ann. i. Hist. nat. p. 131 (1769) ; Newton, i. 

 p. 296 ; Dresser, iii. p. 29, pi. 99 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. 

 p. 661 ; Saunders, p. 95 ; Lilford, iii. p. 2, pi. i. ; A.alpinus, Naumann, 

 iii. p. 940, Taf. 92, fig. 1 ; Hewitson, i. p. 96, pi. xxvii. fig. 2 ; Gould, 

 B. of E. pi. 99 ; id. B. of Gt, Brit. ii. pi. 54. 



Fauvette des Alpes, French ; Alpen Fluhvogel, German ; Serrano, 

 Span.; Sordone, Ital. 



$ ad. (Alps). Upper parts dull ashy grey, head and neck striped with 

 darker grey, and back with dark brown ; quills dark brown, externally 

 margined with ashy brown and tipped with white, inner secondaries and 

 scapulars with inner web margined with rufous ; wing-coverts blackish 



