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States, and Dalniatia. Its range in Asia is along the same latitude as 

 in Europe. Mr. Tristram informs me that the only specimen he ever 

 saw was in the Museum at Palermo. 



I copy the following account from Middendorff's capture of this 

 bird in his ''Sibirische Reise," vol. ii., p. 172: — 



'^One specimen only of this bird was shot in the Stanowoj chain of 

 mountains. It perfectly agrees with Pallas's description and Gould's 

 drawing, and consequently entirely removes the doubt which Brandt 

 expressed relating to the identity of the Siberian and European 

 Birds, as well as to that which received the name of Accentor Tem- 

 minckii. The specimen mentioned by Brandt is in the winter pluma^; 

 therefore being in a transition state, it is fainter in colour, and greyish. 

 The stripe over the eyes is white; the throat dirty white; breast and 

 belly light rust yellow. On the back of the bird the colours are 

 an admixture of rust brown and ash grey, which latter predominates, 

 especially about the head and nape. The spots have the same colour 

 as in the summer plumage, but in the latter they extend more towards 

 the wings. The Accentor, Atro-gularis of Brandt, differs from A. 

 montcmellus essentially in the black throat." 



Mr. Swinhoe (P. Z. S., 1870, p. 125,) records the occurrence of two 

 specimens of this bird at Pekin, and Canon Tristram, Ibis, 1870, p. 

 494, says that he has received specimens from the Amoor and Siberia, 

 which confirm the supposition above expressed by Middendorff, that 

 A. Temminckii, Brandt, and A. montanellus , Temminck, are identical. 

 — *^My winter-shot specimen,^' says Canon Tristram, "corresponds ex- 

 actly with the colouration of Dr. Brandt's bird, having the supercilia 

 and breast whitish, instead of buff, while the breeding plumage of 

 another specimen is exactly that figured by Goiild and described by 

 Temminck. It is at least a consolation to perplexed lovers of the 

 Sylviidse, that they need not be harrassed any longer by doubts as 

 to which species of Accentor is entitled to a place in the European 

 list, as the same species ranges from east to west of Northern Asia." 



Dr. Gustavus Radde, in his "Heisen im Siiden von Ost Siberien," 

 has the following remarks about this bird: — 



''It is remarkable that out of sixteen specimens of this bird of 

 passage which I killed on their route through Mongolia, that only 

 four were males, twelve being females. It is possible that in this as 

 in other species the two sexes travel in separate flocks. (We know 

 this to be the case with our migratory birds when they come to us 

 in spring. C. H. B.) An intermediate form between this and Accentor 

 Atrogularis, Brehm, is wholly wanting. Although all the birds brought 

 home by me were in the faded winter plumage, having been killed in 



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