124 MR, R. SWINHOE ON A NEW ACCENTOR. (Feb. 24, 
I will in conclusion briefly recapitulate the main characters of this 
black-backed group of the /eucopsis type. General characters the 
same in all, as given above. 
1. Motacilla leucopsis, Gould, With narrow black pectoral band. 
India. 
2. M. felix, sp. nov. With the whole breast black. South 
China (Canton to Shanghai). 
3. M. felix, var. sechuenensis. Breast-black to the bill. Western 
China (Szechuen). 
4. M. francisi, sp. nov. Breast, ear-coverts, and moustache 
black. China. Extreme west and south (Szechuen and Hainan). 
3. On a New Species of Accentor from North China. 
By R. Swinuog, F.Z.S. 
(Plate IX.) 
On my journey back from Mongolia to Peking in the Prefecture of 
Seuen-hwafoo, which is a tract of country enclosed by two portions 
of the Great Wall, we halted on the 26th September, 1868, at a place 
called Kemeih, and climbed up the sides of a high mountain, on the 
top of which stood a monastery. We were in pursuit of the Rock- 
partridge (Caccabis chukar), when a party of red-tailed birds whisked 
past us and, perching near, kept flying from rock to rock, uttering 
loud notes. We secured one, and then continued our chase after the 
Partridges. A few days later I saw another small flock of the same 
species among the rocks of the fine mountain-pass that leads through 
the Nankow Gate to the Peking plain. The bird procured was an 
Accentor of the alpinus type, most nearly allied to A. nipalensis of 
Hodgson. 
ACCENTOR ERYTHROPYGIUS, sp. nov. (Plate IX.) 
Head, neck, and breast smoke-grey ; lores and under eye mottled 
with white. Throat for nearly an inch downwards white, with nar- 
row bars of black. Lesser and greater coverts and winglet black, 
with a large spot of white tipping each feather. Secondary quills 
black, margined for the greater part of their length with yellowish 
brown, and broadly tipped with light chestnut terminating with white; 
on the tertiaries the chestnut brightens, and increases in extent, and 
the terminal white spots are conspicuous. Primaries blackish 
brown, edged with light yellowish brown, browner near their bases, 
and lightly tipped with white. Back light yellowish brown, with 
broad brown centres to the feathers. Scapulars brownish chestnut, 
with a median streak of blackish brown and a small white tip 
to each feather. The yellowish brown of the back soon brightens 
into brownish chestnut, which is rich and conspicuous on the upper 
tail-coverts, the longest of which have black centres. Tail brown- 
ish black, the outer rectrix with the greater part of its outer 
