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May 23, 1854. 
Dr. Gray, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. NoTIceE OF ALL THE KNOWN SPECIES OF THE GENUS ACCEN- 
TOR, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF AN UNCHARACTERIZED SPECIES 
From Nepau. By Freperic Moore, Assist. Mus. East 
Inp1a Company. 
Family Syiviap2, Vigors. 
Subfamily AccenTortina, Vigors. 
Genus AccenTor, Bechstein. 
1. ACCENTOR ALPINUS, Gmelin. 
Motacilla alpina, Gmel. 8. N. L. i. p. 957. 
Sturnus moritanus, Gmel. 8. N. L. i. p. 804. 
Sturnus collaris, Scop. Ann.i. p. 131. no. 192. Gmel. S. N. L. i. 
p- 805. Lath. Ind. Or. i. p. 323. 
Accentor alpinus, Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. ii. p. 700. Eyton, 
Cat. Brit. B. p. 13. Macgill, Hist. Brit. B. i. p. 258. Gould, 
Birds of Eur. t. 99. G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 187 ; Catal. 
Brit. B. in B. M. p. 64. Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. 8. Beng. p. 130. 
Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 305. 
Le Fauvette des Alpes, Buffon. 
The Alpine Accentor, Eyton; Yarrell. 
Hab, Europe. 
2. ACCENTOR NIPALENSIS, Hodgson. 
Accentor nipalensis, Hodgson, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 958 (1843) ; 
Gray’s Zool. Misc. 1844, p. 83; P. Z. S. 1845, p. 34; Cat. B. of 
Nepal, p. 71. G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 187. Blyth, J. A. 
S. Beng. xv. p. 42. Bonap. C. Gen. Av. p. 305. 
Accentor cacharensis, Hodgs. P. Z. 8. 1845, p. 34. 
The Nepal Accentor, Gray. 
Hab. Nepal. 
A. nipalensis.—* Newly-moulted adults have the upper parts nearly 
as in A. modularis, but the dark colour predominating, and the stria- 
tion of the head and neck obsolete, or nearly so, these parts, with the 
ear-coverts and breast being of an almost uniform dark brownish- 
grey; throat white, spotted with dusky-black, which forms two 
cross-bars on each feather, their extreme tips being greyish ; belly 
and flanks bright dark ferruginous, mingled with the hue of the 
breast along the middle of the former; under tail-coverts dusky, 
tinged with ferruginous, and laterally margined with white; the 
feathers of the back are greyish-brown, with broad dark centres, or they 
may be described as blackish, with brown lateral margins, tinged with 
ferruginous towards and upon the scapularies ; wings dusky-black, the 
