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Male in winter (Pekin, December). Differs from the male in spring in having the black on the crown duller, 
sullied and edged with brown, and the abdomen is whiter. 
Young just fledged (Chamardaban, fide Taczanowski, J. f. O. 1872, p. 435). Resembles the adult, but is 
much paler in general coloration, and the breast and throat have brown pencillings or markings. 
AN inhabitant of Asia, and more especially the eastern portion of that continent, the present 
species is but a rare straggler to Europe, and, so far as I can ascertain, does not appear to have 
been met with west of Russia, where, however, it probably remains to breed; for Mr. Sabanaeff, 
who records it from the Ural, though he only seems to have found it in the Paydinsky Dacha, 
says that it certainly breeds there. It has once occurred near Jaroslaf, and probably breeds in 
that province. Early in July nine eggs were found there, which, Mr. Sabanaeff says, were in 
all probability those of the present species; but he omits to give any description of them. 
Temminck (J. ¢.) states that it “is not common in the Neapolitan states, Dalmatia, and in 
Southern Hungary ;” but Salvadori does not believe that it has ever been met with in Italy. It 
has, however, occurred within the Austrian dominions; for Herr A. von Pelzeln states that there 
is an Austrian-killed specimen in the Museum at Vienna. Professor von Nordmann (Démidoff, 
Voy. Russ. Merid. ii. p. 171) says that it appears in the Crimea during the autumn passage, and 
is also seen in the gardens of Odessa, but he does not believe that it is resident or breeds there. 
The true home of the Mountain-Accentor is Central and Eastern Asia. Pallas, who first 
discovered it, states that it was common in the Transbaikal territory in the month of February, 
but on the Jenesei it was rarer. Dr. Severtzoff met with it in Turkestan, and divides the birds 
he obtained there into two forms, calling one Accentor montanellus, which he says occurs in the 
north-eastern district during the breeding-season, at an altitude of from 6000 to 10,000 feet; and 
the second form he calls Accentor fulvescens, and says that it is found in the north-eastern and 
south-eastern districts during the breeding-season, and the same districts as well as in the north- 
western portion of the country in the winter. In the MS. notes furnished to me he states, 
however, that in all probability there is no specific difference between these two forms, the latter 
being Accentor temmincki of Brandt. Von Middendorff met with the present species in Siberia, 
but obtained only a single specimen in the Stanowoi mountains; but Dr. Radde collected sixteen 
examples, all obtained in Mongolia during migration. He states that in the western mountain- 
covered portion of the country he visited he did not meet with it either in the Eastern Sajan or 
at Lake Baikal; but during migration it was by no means uncommon at the Tarei-nor, where 
the first stragglers appeared on the 16th March 1856 (O.S.), but the main body did not arrive 
before the 17th April. In the autumn he did not observe it; but the year after, when the 
migration season was over in the Bureja mountains, and the Amoor was becoming covered with 
ice, he shot two specimens in the willows on the banks of that river. Dr. Dybowski has of 
latter years obtained many specimens in Dauria (Darasun), where the present species appears to 
be common. ‘This gentleman states (J. f. O. 1872, p. 434) that it is “ tolerably common in the 
spring, arriving in the latter half of March and remaining until the latter part of April. Only a 
few remain to breed; and these are scattered in the more elevated portions of the mountains. 
We met with the old birds, in company with their fledged young, in the forests of cedar and 
pine at the foot of the Chamardaban mountains. In the autumn they again appear in tolerable 
