ACCENTOR FULVESCENS. 



(BROWN ACCENTOR.) 



Accentor fulvescens, Severtzoff, Turk. Jevotnie, pp. 66, 132 (1873). 



Accentor dahuricus, Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 144. 



Accentor montanellus (nee Pall.), Hume, Str. Feath. iii. p. 220 (1875). 



Accentor ocularis, Kaclde, Orn. Caucas: p. 244, pi. xiv. (1884). 



Tharrhaleus fulvescens (Severtzoff), Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 171 (1890). 



Figurce notabiles. 

 Radde, Orn. Cauc. pi. xiv. ; Gould, B. of Asia, part xxiii. (as $ of A. montanellus). 



Ad. corpore supra pallide cinereo-fusco, plumis centraliter nigro-fuscis, pileo nigro-fulvido : stria, superciliari 

 usque ad nucham ducta, loris, capitis lateribus et regione parotica nigris : remigibus et rectricibus 

 fuscis, extus pallidiore marginatis : mento et gula albis : corpore reliquo subtiis cervino, hypocbondriis 

 griseo-fusco lavatis : rostro nigro-fusco : pedibus carneo-fuscis : iride fusca. 



Adult Male (Verno'i, January 22nd) . Crown warm blackisb brown ; a broad superciliary streak extending 

 from the base of the bill to the nape white ; lores, sides of the head, and ear-coverts black ; upper 

 parts generally pale greyish brown, darker near the shaft of the feathers ; wings and tail brown, with 

 paler margins to the feathers ; chin and throat white, rest of the underparts creamy buff, washed with 

 dull greyish brown on the flanks : bill blackish brown ; legs fleshy ; iris dark brown. Total length 

 about 5"5 inches, culmen 05, wing 3'05, tail 2 - 6, tarsus 08. 



A female from the Nobra Valley, shot on the 24th June, resembles the male, but the colours are duller and 

 the superciliary stripe is smaller ; and a male from the Karakash Valley obtained in October is very pale 

 in general coloration, though otherwise not differing from the other specimens. Dr. Severtzoff when he 

 worked at my collection marked on the label of this specimen " A. fulvescens, var. pallidus." Autumn- 

 killed specimens in the British Museum are paler and duller owing to the light margins to the feathers, 

 and the underparts are warm clay-buff in tone of colour. 



The range of the Brown Accentor extends from the Caucasus to Eastern Mongolia and Thibet, 

 and from Siberia to Gilgit and Sikhim. Dr. Radde obtained it only once in the Caucasus, in 

 the eastern part of the Kus-jurdi, at an altitude of 8000 feet, the specimen, a male, having been 

 shot in June ; and Dr. Raclde believing it to be undescribed, figured and described it (I. c.) under 

 the name of Accentor ocularis. 



I do not find any record of its occurrence between the Caucasus and Turkestan, though it is 

 probably to be met with in suitable localities in the intervening countries. 



In Turkestan, according to Dr. Severtzoff, it occurs both in the winter and also during the 

 breeding-season. Mr. Scully met with it in Eastern Turkestan, where he observed it, he says 

 (Str. Feath. iv. p. 155), pretty frequently between Toghrasu and Gulgun Shah, at elevations of 



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