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tertiaries broadly margined with ferruginous, the other large alars 
slightly so, and all having a spot of this colour at the extremity of 
their outer edge ; wing-coverts having a white spot at the tip of 
their exterior webs, and the small feathers near the bend of the wing 
coloured like the head; tail brownish-black, tipped with brown, the 
terminal spot of the inner web of each feather successively more 
albescent to the outermost ; upper tail-coverts long, and brown with 
a dark central streak ; bill dusky, the lower mandible yellow except 
at tip ; legs reddish-brown. In worn plumage, the margins of all 
the feathers have more or less disappeared, and what remains of 
them is faded in hue; the conspicuous white spots on the wing- 
coverts, and ferruginous margins of the tertiaries, being completely 
abraded, the former leaving a semicircular sinus, as if artificially cut 
away. The young have the clothing plumage of the usual flimsy 
texture, the under parts coloured like the back, with no ferruginous 
on the belly, the spots on the wing-coverts are larger and less purely 
white; and the ferruginous on the scapularies and wing-coverts 
dingy.” 
Length about 7 inches ; of wing 33 inches; tail 23; bill to gape 
eths ; and tarse 13ths of an inch. 
This species appears to represent 4. alpinus on the Kachar region 
of Nepal. 
3. ACCENTOR VARIEGATUS, Blyth, 
Accentor himalayanus*, Blyth J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 187. 
Accentor variegatus, Blyth, J. A. S, Beng. xii. p. 958 (1843) ; 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 131. G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. 
p- 187. Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 305. 
Accentor alpinus, Vieill, Gall. des Ois. t. 156 (nec Gmel.). 
The Variegated Accentor. 
Hab. Sikim ; Kasouli; Nepal (No. 964, Hodgson’s Catalogue). 
A. variegatus.—* Forehead, crown, occiput, neck, shoulder of the 
wings, and rump dingy grey-brown, with an inconspicuous lighter 
greyish eye-streak ; throat and fore-neck white, with small round 
spots disposed as in alpinus ; ear-coverts streaked with fulvescent, and 
small loral and infra-orbital feathers tipped with fulvous-white ; gorget 
brown, more or less tinged with rufous, which latter brightens on the 
lower breast, flanks, and sides of the belly, the feathers being laterally 
edged with white, and some having dark streaks on the flanks pos- 
teriorly ; lower tail-coverts white, with lanceolate central dusky spots ; 
wings intricately mottled, having the anterior range of coverts dusky- 
black with white tips, the next or great range fulvescent-grey 
exteriorly at base, and dusky-black for the remainder with slight 
whitish tips; primaries edged with grey, secondaries with brown, 
and tertiaries with fulvous ; scapularies and interscapularies rufous- 
brown, mottled with large black terminal spots on the middle of each 
feather ; tail dusky, having a large white spot at the tip of the inner 
web of each feather ; bill black ; legs pale reddish.” 
* This name was changed to variegatus by Mr. Blyth, as the other Indian 
species of this genus are also found in the Himalayas. 
