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This fine undescribed species was lately presented by B. H. Hodg- 
son, Esq., to the Museum of the Hon. East India Company. 
8. AccENTOR sTROPHIATUS, Hodgson. 
Accentor strophiatus, Hodgs. J. A. 8. Beng. xii. p. 959; Gray’s 
Zool. Misc. 1844, p. 83; P. Z. S. 1845, p. 34; Cat. B. of Nepal, 
p- 72. G.R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 187. t. 51. Blyth, Cat. 
B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 131. Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 305. 
The rufous-breasted Accentor, Gray. 
Hab. Himalayas. 
A, strophiatus.—“ Upper parts much as in 4. modularis, but the 
colours brighter and more contrasted, and the crown and neck uni- 
form with the back ; a broad eye-streak, the first of which is white 
to beyond the eye, surmounting a ferruginous streak continued back- 
ward to the occiput ; a semicircle of the same surrounds the dusky 
ear-coverts, and the entire breast is also ferruginous ; throat white, 
with dusky spots, forming a line descending from each angle of the 
lower mandible; belly and lower tail-coverts white with dusky streaks ; 
wing-feathers dusky, margined with ferruginous, with an albescent 
spot at the tip of each covert; tail brownish, with dull rufous outer 
margins ; bill black ; legs reddish-brown.” 
Length about 54 inches; of wing 21 to 21; tail 21 to 21; bill to 
gape 3ths; and tarse +3ths of an inch. 
9. ACCENTOR IMMACULATUS, Hodgson. 
Accentor immaculatus, v. nipalensis, Hodgs. Gray’s Zool. Misc. 
1844, p. 83; P. Z. S. 1845, p. 34; Cat. B. of Nepal, p. 71 et 
App. p. 153. 
Accentor mollis, Blyth, J. A. 8. Beng. xiv. p. 581 (1845); Cat. 
B. Mus. A. 8. Beng. p. 131. G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, ili. App. 
p- 8.. Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 306. 
The unspotted Accentor. 
Hab. Nepal; Sikim. 
A. immaculatus.— Upper parts a rich brown, passing into pure 
dark ash-colour on the head and neck, and into maroon on the 
seapularies and tertiaries, and less deeply on the hind part of the 
back ; coverts of the secondaries pure dark-grey, those of the pri- 
maries, with the winglet black, as also the primaries, these last having 
their unemarginated portion externally bordered with pale-grey ; tail 
greyish dusky; frontal feathers to above the eyes margined with 
white, the lores blackish, and the entire under parts slightly em- 
browned deep ash-colour as far as the vent, which is pale and tinged 
with ferruginous, the under tail-coverts being deeper ferruginous, and 
the hind portion of the flanks dark ferruginous ; bill blackish ; feet 
fleshy grey ; iris straw-colour.” 
Length about 6 inches; tail 21; wing 31; bill to frontal feathers 
zsths ; and tarse 3 of an inch. 
10. Accentor Hurront, Moore. 
Accentor atrogularis, Hutton (nec Brandt ?), J. A. S. Beng. xviii. 
