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red > the ear-coverts are fulvous ; the interscapulary region 

 and tertiaries black, with broad rufous margins ; lower back, 

 dingy grey ; the wing-coverts are more or less tipped with 

 white, as in A. nipalensis, forming two conspicuous but 

 irregular wing bars ; the under tail-coverts are brown, broadly 

 margined with white ; chin, white ; the feathers of the throat 

 and fore neck white, with black tips. 



The grey of the shoulders and lower back contrasts strongly 

 with the ferruginous tint on the upper back ; and the crown 

 of the head is in some specimens very distinctly streaked with 

 brown. 



131.— Accentor jerdoni, Brooks. (654 bis). 



Common in the summer at elevations of 10,000 feet and 

 upwards, where it breeds. It was not observed in winter. 

 This is the species figured by Gould (B. Asia, Pt. VII.} as 

 A. strophiatus. A young bird just able to fly, shot towards 

 the end of July, has the upper plumage dark brown, broadly 

 margined with ferruginous, a party-coloured wing bar, formed 

 by huff tips to the secondary coverts and dark brown tips to 

 the primary coverts ; the whole supercilium is buffy white ; 

 the lower parts are fawn colour, almost white on the throat, 

 and strongly tinged with ferruginous on the breast ; most ot 

 the feathers dark centred. This is a much younger sta^e than 

 that described by Mr. Hume in " Lahore to Yarkand." 



132. — Accentor atrogularis, Brandt. (655). 



Tolerably common during the winter; leaves about the 23rd 

 March. 



Agrees well with Jerdon's description of A. huttoni, and 

 also with Gould's plate of A. atrogularis, which latter name 

 has precedence if the two names refer, as they apparently do, 

 to one and the same species. 



133.— Accentor fulvescens, Severtzoff? (655 Us). 



A species of Accentor was common in Gilgit during the 

 winter, which, in the absence of the type to compare with, 

 must stand under this name, though it neither agrees with the 

 plate nor the description given in Gould's " Birds of Asia," 

 Part XXIII. (vide Stray Feathers, Vol. III., p. 428), which 

 Dr. Severtzoff says is his A. fulvescens. 



Description. — Sexes alike. Top of the head almost uniform 

 dull brown; the rest of the upper plumage grey brown; the 

 feathers of the back indistinctly ceutred dull brown ; wino-g 

 and tail dull brown, with pale edgings ; two white wino- bars 

 formed by tippings to the coverts; no pale tips to the inner 

 webs of the tail-feathers ; except a faint trace on the outermost 



