ACCENTOE ATRIGTTLAEIS. 



(BLACK-THROATED ACCENTOR.) 



Accentor atriyularis, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersbourg, ii. p. 140 (1844). 



Accentor huttoni, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 119. 



Tharrhaleus atrogularis (Brandt), Nazaroff, Recherch. Zool. des Steppes des Kirguiz, p. 23 



(1886). 

 Tharrhaleus atrigularis (Brandt), Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 170 (1890). 



Figwra unica. 

 Gould, B. of Asia, part x. 



Ad. pileo fusco-cinereo, lateribus nigris : dorso cum scapularibus cinereo- fuscis, pluiuis centraliter nigro-fusco 

 notatis : uropygio cum supracaudalibus fere omnino fuscis : alis fuscis, remigibus extiis anguste 

 pallidiore marginatis, secunclariis et tectricibus magis fulvido-fusco marginatis : rectricibus saturate 

 fuscis, extiis pallide fusco marginatis : corpore subtiis cervino : gula, loris, capitis lateribus sub oculis 

 et regione parotica nigris : stria superciliari usque ad nucham ducta, rufescenti-eervina : colli lateribus 

 schistaceo-cinereis : hypochondriis indistincte fusco striatis : abdomine centraliter albo : rostro nigro, 

 ad basin flavo-carneo : pedibus carneis : iride fusca. 



Adult Male (Tschimkent, autumn). Centre of the crown ashy brown, sides of the crown black; back and 

 scapulars ashy hair-brown, with clearly denned blackish-brown centres to the feathers ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts almost uniform hair-brown, the feathers being rather darker near the shaft ; wings 

 brown, with narrow pale brown margins to the primaries ; the secondaries and wing-coverts broadly 

 margined with fulvous brown ; tail-feathers dark brown, with narrow external pale brown margins ; 

 underparts generally warm clay-buff; throat and the lores, sides of the head below the eye, and the 

 ear-coverts black ; superciliary stripe from the base of the bill, extending over the eye to the sides of 

 the nape, warm clay -buff ; sides of the neck slate-grey ; flanks obscurely striated with pale brown ; 

 centre of the abdomen nearly white : bill blackish brown, fleshy at the base ; legs fleshy brown ; iris 

 dark brown. Total length about 5 - 6 inches, culmen OS, wing 2"95, tail 2 - 7, tarsus 0'82. 



A female obtained at Ssaissansk in October does not differ from the male above described, except that it is 

 a trifle duller in tone of colour. Winter specimens have the black on the throat obscured by buffy- 

 ■white margins, and those in the summer dress have the black purer and deeper in tone of colour, and 

 extending over a rather larger area. A male in the British Museum, obtained in Turkestan by 

 Severtzoff on the 14th March, has the underparts much whiter than in the other specimens I have 

 examined, and the black on the throat and sides of the head is very deep in colour and almost pure; 

 the streak over the eye is pure white, not extending in front of the eye ; the forehead, lores, and all 

 the space in front of the eye being pure black. 



Until quite recently this Accentor was not known to occur within the limits of the Western 

 Palasarctic Region, but there is now no doubt of its having been obtained in Russia in Europe, for 



