RECENTLY DESCRIBED SPECIES. 491 
and feet, pale fleshy; bill, grey brown; feathers of the head, 
scaly. 
Length, 5:55 inches ; wing, 2°2; tail, 2°5; tarsus, 0°95 ; bill at 
front, 0°45 (measured in the flesh). 
Hab. Nava hills in forest at about 6,000 feet. 
I have named this bird after Mr. L. Mandelli, who has so 
successfully worked the ornithology of the Sikkim hills, and 
who described in ‘Stray Freatruers’, July 1873 (p. 416), a very 
near ally of this species, viz., Minla rufogularis (=collaris.* 
Walden), of which I obtained several specimens in the Dafla 
hills last winter. f 
Accentor Jerdoni, Brooks. 
Bill, shorter, feebler and sharper pointed than in A. stro- 
phiatus, and not nearly so black. One specimen has the basal 
portion of the lower mandible, pale brown. Total length, 4:5 
inches ; wing, 2°54 to 2°62; tail, 2°3 to 2°54; bill at front, 0°35 ; 
tarsus 0°75. 
This bird in mode of coloration strongly resembles A. stro- 
phiatus, yet it is very distinct, being altogether a paler, and less 
boldly marked species. The striation of the back is compara- 
tively cloudy, and resembles that of Pcpastes arboreus. The 
upper surface is a mixture of brownish grey and dark brown, 
and there is none of the warm rufous tint observable on the 
back of A. strophiatus. 'The rump and upper tail coverts, which 
are strongly streaked in strophiatus, are plain greyish brown, 
in our bird, with hardly the faintest streak perceptible. The 
anterior portion of the supercilium is whitish, as in strophiatus, 
but the remainder, instead of bemg deep rusty red, is merely 
warm buff or fulvous. Above the supercilium is a dark band 
on each side of the head, which is continued to the occiput ; 
the crown of the head is brownish grey, mottled indistinctly 
with pale brown; the back is brownish grey, streaked with 
dark brown; ear coverts, dark slatey brown, slightly mottled 
with greyish white; a patch of pure grey, very faintly streaked 
with brown, between the ear coverts and bend of wing; from 
chin to upper breast, white, with small neat dark brown spots ; 
below this white, a broad (2 inch) pectoral band of rufous, 
not nearly so deep and bright as in strophiatus, and devoid ot 
dark streaks; strophiatus sometimes has the pectoral rufous 
strongly streaked; rest of lower surface, dull whitish with 
the flanks tinged with brown; the latter, having also broad 
* S. F., Vol. TIT., p. 281. 
+ Tam very decidedly of opinion that this supposed new species is Proparus 
dubius, Hume, Pro. A. S. B, May 1874, and 8. F., IL., 447.—Eb., 8. F 
