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INSECTIVOR^. 



Famihj SYLVIIJDJE. 



Genus Accentor. {Bechstein. 



Generic Characters. — Beak of medium length, robust, straight, conical, and 

 pointed. Edges of each mandible compressed, upper one notched near the 

 point. Nostrils basal, naked, pierced in a membrane of considerable size. 

 Feet robust, three toes in front and one behind, the exterior joined at its 

 base to the middle toe; the claw of the hind toe much the longest and 

 the most curved. First wing primary nearly obsolete, the second nearly as 

 long as the third, which is the longest in the wing. 



MOUNTAIN ACCENTOR. 



Accentor montanellus. 



Motacilla fnonlanelhis, Pallas; Voyage, vol. 8, French Edition, 



Appendix, p. 71, 1776. 



Accentor montanellus, Temminck; Man., 1820. 



" " Bonaparte. Schinz. 



" " Keyserling and Blasius. 



" " Schlegel. Degland. 



Accenteur Montag?iard, Of the French. 



Berg Fhchvogel, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — A double row of transverse yellow spots on the wing. 

 Head above deep black; shafts of the tail quill feathers russet. Length 

 about six inches. Culmen very black; lower mandible, especially at root, 

 lighter; tarsi dull whitish yellow; claws grey brown; iris light yellow brown. 



The group of birds, of whicli the present is the first notice, is one 

 of great interest to all who take the slightest pleasure in natural 

 history. It contains all our summer Warblers — those harbingers of 



