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INSECTIVOEJB. 
Famihj SYLVIADJE. 
Genus Accentor, f Bechstem.) 
Generic Characters . — Beak of medium length, robust, straight, 
conical, and pointed. Edges of each mandible compressed, upper 
one notched near the point. Nostrils basal, naked, pierced in 
a membrane of considerable size. Eeet robust, three toes in 
front and one behind, the exterior joined at its base to the 
middle toe; the claw of the hind toe by much the longest 
and the most curved. First wing primary nearly obsolete, the 
second nearly as long as the third, which is the longest in 
the wing. 
MOUNTAIN ACCENTOE. 
Accentor montanellus. 
iMotacilla montanellus, 
Accentor motanellus, 
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a (C 
Accenteur Montagnard, 
Berg Flulivogel, 
Pallas; Voyage, table 8, 
French Edition, Appen- 
dix, p. 71, 1776. 
Temminck; Man., 1820. 
Bonaparte, Schinz. 
Keysekling and Blasius. 
ScuLEGEL. Degland. 
Of the French. 
Of the GtERmans. 
Specific Characters . — A double row of transverse yellow spots 
on the wing. Head above deep black; shafts of the tail quill 
feathers russet. Length about six inches. — Degland. 
