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the inner secondaries and wing-coverts darker with broad rufous margins, 

 the latter tipped with white ; chin and throat ashy brown with darker 

 bases ; breast deep ferruginous ; abdomen whitish ; flanks and- under tail- 

 coverts pale rufous streaked with brown ; bill black ; legs reddish brown ; 

 iris pale brown. Culmen 0'6, wing 3'25, tail 2*9, tarsus 0*9 inch. Sexes 

 alike. 



Hob. The Himalayas from Eastern Kashmir and Ladak to 

 Sikhim, Tibet, and the Koko-nor and Tetung mountains in 

 Mongolia, where it is resident. 



It passes the summer in high altitudes descending to the 

 valleys in the winter. Its song is said to resemble that of 

 Rutieilla aurwea, but has a peculiar tone like the rustling of dry 

 leaves. According to Prjevalsky it breeds in the mountains of 

 Kan-su, on the upper Chuanche and on the Dy-tschu river 

 but its nest and eggs are, so far as I know, as yet undescribed. 



216. BLACK-THROATED ACCENTOR. 

 ACCENTOR ATRIGULARIS. 



Accentor atrigularis, Brandt. Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. ii. p. 140 (1844) ; 

 Gould, B. of Asia, iv. pi. 48 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 606 ; 

 Pleske, Prjevalsky's Keisen, ii. p. 156 ; Dresser, ix. p. 109, pi. 654, 

 fig. 2 ; Gates, F. Brit. Ind. Birds, ii. p. 170 ; A. huttoni, Moore, 

 P.Z.S. p. 119, 1854. 



ad. (Turkestan). Upper parts ashy hair-brown, striped with blackish 

 brown, the crown darker, the sides blackish ; rump plain brown ; wings and 

 tail brown, margined with fulvous ; superciliary stripe buff; throat and sides 

 of the head black ; rest of un der parts ochraceous buff, the flanks and 

 under tail-coverts striped with brown ; abdomen nearly white ; bill 

 blackish brown, fleshy at the b ase ; legs fleshy brown ; iris dark brown. 

 Culmen 0'5, wing 2 '95, tail 27, tarsus 0'82 inch. Female slightly duller 

 in colour. In" the winter the black on the throat is obscured by buffy 

 white margins. 



Hob. The Kirghis steppes, Turkestan, Samarkand, the Altai 

 range, occurring as far west as Orenburg, ranging in winter to 

 Afghanistan, the N. W. Himalayas, and the Punjab salt range. 



They are usually seen in pairs and are not shy. Scully met 

 with it in winter in orchards where they were running about on 

 the sward near rose-bushes. It is said to breed in the Altai range 

 and Eastern Turkestan, but so far as I can ascertain there is no 

 authentic record of its nidification. Eggs said to belong to this 

 species resemble those of Accentor modularis. 



