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two white bands ; tail brown ; three outer feathers with 

 a broad white spot near tip ; lores not black. 



The Mot. Varia, Linnajus, is the type of the genus, 

 but Cuvier refers it to Cerfhia, and Pr. Musig. to Sylvia, 

 The latter ornithologist places here the genus Dacnis, 

 which Cuvier considers as a section of Casnicus. Swain- 

 son has again established the genus under the name of 

 l/'ermivora. 



Bechstein separates from the other Warblers, his 



Accentor, 



which is the Alpine Warbler, Buff. {Mot. Alpina,) Enl. 

 6.68_, because its slender beak, but more exactly conical 

 than that of the other Warblers, has its edges a little 

 re-entering. 



It is an ash-coloured bird^ white throat, picked out 

 with black, with ranges of white spots on the wing, 

 and a lively red on the sides. It stays in the pasture- 

 grounds of the High Alps, where it chases insects, 

 and from which it descends into the villages in winter 

 to find grains. 



This is also the Collared Stare of Latham, Sturmis 

 Mauritanus and St. Collaris of Gmelin. 



I believe I have observed a similar beak on our 

 Hedge- Sparrows, (M. Modularis,'Lm.) Enl. 615. 1. — 

 the only species which remains with us in winter, and 

 which enlivens this season a little by its agreeable 

 song. It is fawn spotted with black above, slate- 

 ash below. In the summer it goes northward, and 



