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INSECTIVOEJi. 



Family SYLVIAD^. 



Genus Accentor, f Bechstei/n.J 



Generic Characters-. — Beak of medium length, robust, straight, 

 <)onical, and pointed. Edges of each mandible compressed, upper 

 one notched near the point. N'ostrils basal, naked, pierced in 

 a membi"ane of considerable size. Peet 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 ACCENTOR. 



Accentor montanellus . 



Motacilla montanellus, Pallas ; Yoyage, table 8, 



French Edition, Appen- 

 dix, p. 71, 1776. 

 Accentor viotanellus, Temminck,- Man., 1820. 



" " Bonaparte. Schinz. 



" " Keyseeling and Blasius. 



" " Schlegel. Degland. 



Accentenr Montagnard, Of the French. 



Berg Fhihvogel, Of the Germans. 



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. 



