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Accentor COllaris. Alpine Accentok. 



Sturnus collar! s, Scopoli, Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 131 



(1769). 

 Accentor alpinus, Naum. iii. p. 940; Macg. ii. p. 258; 

 Hewitson, p. 96; Gray, p. 60; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 239; 

 id. ed. 3, i. p. 249 ; Gould, ii. pi. 54 ; Harting, p. 102. 

 Accentor collaris, Newton, i. p. 296; Dresser, iii. p. 29. 

 Alpine Accentor, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 219. 



Collaris = with a conspicuous neck, collitm. 



This species has occurred in Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, 

 Suffolk, Essex, Sussex, Devon, G-loucestershire, and Wales — 

 in all, about a dozen times in Great Britain. It inhabits the 

 mountains of Central and Southern Europe. 



[Subfamily Miming. 

 Genus MIMUS, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 972. 



Mlmus = iiTjios, a mimic. 



Mimus polyglottus. Nostsebn Moozinb-bibd. 

 Turdus polyglottos, Lmw. S.N. i. p. 293 (1766). 



Polyglottiis = TtoXvyXiaTTos, many-tongued j from TroKvs + yXuTTa. 



Specimens imported in cages occasionally escape ; but there 

 is no authentic instance of this common North- American bird 

 having occurred wild in Europe.] 



Family CINCLID^. 



Genus CINCLUS, Bechstein, Naturg. Deutschl. iii. p. 808 



(1802) . 



Cinclus = KtyicXos, a bird mentioned by Aristotle, from the characteristic 

 motion of which the verb Kiy/cXi^eii/ = to wag the tail, was formed. Probably 

 akin to /ceWw = I move, with a nasal reduplication. 



Cinclus aqnaticus. Dippek. 



Cinclus aquaticus, Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. i. p. 206 



(1802). 

 Cinclus aquaticus, Naum. iii. p. 925 ; Hewitson, p. 77; Yarr. 



