1845.] or little known Species of Birds. 581 



C. himalayana, and the pale central spots to the feathers are more 

 diffused (i. e. much less defined), especially those of the head. Upon 

 a first view, it might be thought that the under-parts of C. discolor 

 are merely dirty ; but the colour is not to be washed out, and five 

 specimens before me are all quite similar, while in three Nepal spe- 

 cimens of the other the white is alike pure, and the flanks deep ferru- 

 ginous. It is indeed possible that neither of these is the true C. 

 himalayana, in which case the Nepal species might be designated C. 

 nipalensis, Hodgson. C. discolor is common at Darjeeling. 



There is a Certhia spilonota, Franklin, P. Z. & 1831, p. 121, with 

 " tail soft and flexible (!), in which respect it differs from the type of 

 the genus, but it agrees in all others." It therefore cannot, however, 

 be properly classed in Certhia, and requires to be re-examined. Neither 

 Mr. Jerdon nor myself have been able to identify it. " C. supra gri- 

 seo-fusco, albo maculata ; capite albo graciliter striato ; gula abdomine- 

 que albidis, hoc fusco fasciato ; caudd albo fuscoque fasciatd. Longi- 

 tudo b\ unc" Major Franklin's specimens were collected on the 

 Ganges between Calcutta and Benares, and in the Vindhyian hills 

 between the latter place and Gurrah Mundelah, on the Nerbudda. 



Accentor mollis, nobis. This fourth species of Himalayan Accentor 

 (vide «/. A. S. XII, 958 et seq.,) is about six inches long, of which the 

 tail occupies two and a half ; wing three and a quarter ; bill to frontal 

 feathers five-sixteenths of an inch ; and tarse three-quarters of an inch. 

 Colouring soft and delicate. Upper parts a rich brown, passing into 

 pure dark ash-colour on the head and neck, and into maronne on the 

 scapularies and tertiaries, and less deeply on the hind part of the back ; 

 coverts of the secondaries pure dark grey, those of the primaries, with 

 the winglet, black, as are also the primaries, these last having their 

 unemarginated portion externally bordered with pale grey ; tail grey- 

 ish-dusky ; frontal feathers to above the eyes margined with white, the 

 lores blackish, and the entire under-parts slightly embrowned deep ash- 

 colour, as far as the vent, which is pale and tinged with ferruginous, 

 the under tail-coverts being deeper ferruginous, and the hind portion 

 of the flanks dark ferruginous : bill blackish ; and feet pale, having pro- 

 bably been tinged with yellow. From Darjeeling. 



" The species of this genus," remarked Mr. Yarrell not long ago, " are 

 very limited in number, only five, I believe, being at present known. 

 Two are figured in this work [' History of British Birds,'] as belonging 



