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* ACCENTOR RUBECULOIDES, Moore. 



Red-breasted Accentor. 



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Accentor rubeculo'ides, Moore in Proc. of Zool. Soc. 1 854, p. 

 vol. i. p. 361. 



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This is another of the many rare species which have been transmitted to this country from Nepaul by 

 Mr. Hodgson : in applying the term " rare " to this bird, I consider I am justified, when I state that the two 

 examples in the Museum of the Hon. East India Company are all that we have yet seen. It differs 

 remarkably in the colouring- of its plumage from every other known species, and belongs to that section of 

 the Accentors to which the term Tharrhaleus has been given by Dr. Kaup, with the Hedge Accentor as the 

 type. Of its habits and manners nothing is at present known, but I may venture to predicate that whenever 

 we become acquainted with them, they will very closely resemble those of its near ally. 



The markings of the two specimens above mentioned are very similar, but the rufous colouring of the 

 breast is much deeper in one than in the other : this may be due to age, sex, or the seasons at which they 

 were respectively killed. 



Forehead and crown brown ; throat and sides of the neck brownish-grey ; lores speckled with greyish- 

 white ; upper surface reddish-brown, with a streak of blackish-brown down the centre of each feather ; wings 

 brown, margined with reddish-brown, and faintly spotted with greyish-brown at the tips of the coverts, forming 

 two obscure broken bands across the wing ; tail brown with lighter margins ; across the breast a broad band 

 of rusty-red, which colour extends over the flanks ; centre of the abdomen bufiy-white, the buffy tint 

 increasing in depth towards the under tail-coverts, which are buff with a dark central streak ; bill blackish- 

 brown ; feet reddish flesh-colour. 



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