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allen’s naturalist’s library. 
THE TRUE ACCENTORS. GENUS ACCENTOR. 
Accentor, Bechst., Orn. Taschenb., i., p. 191 (1802). 
Type, A. collaris (Scop.). 
As has already been explained, the Alpine Accentors are 
mountain-loving birds, with a differently formed wing to the 
Hedge-Sparrows. As in the latter birds the sexes are alike, 
but they appear to have a winter plumage, when the feathers 
are paler edged, and the summer plumage is gained by the 
abrasion of these pale margins. 
THE ALPINE ACCENTOR. ACCF.NTOR COLLARIS. 
Accentor collaris (Scop.), Newt. ed. Yarr., i., p. 296 (1871); 
Dresser, B. Eur., iii., p. 29, pi. 99 (1873); Sharpe, Cat. 
B., vii., p. 661 (1883) ; B. O. U. List Brit. B., p. 23 
(1883), Lilford, Col. Fig., Brit. B., pt. vii. (1888); 
Saunders, Man , p. 87 (1889). 
Accentor alpinus, Bechst.; Macg., Brit. B., ii., p. 258 (1839); 
Seeb., Brit. B., i., p. 501 (1883). 
Adult Male.— Light ashy-grey above, all the feathers broadly 
streaked with black down the centre; rump more uniform ashy; 
scapulars externally rufous, like the inner secondaries, which 
are also broadly edged with rufous ; lesser wing-coverts ashy ; 
median and greater coverts black, tipped with white, the 
latter externally ashy-olive ; quills blackish, the secondaries 
tipped with whity-brown, and externally whity-brown or light 
rufous, the innermost ones rufous along both webs ; tail-feathers 
dark brown, edged with ashy-brown, with a white tip to 
the inner web of the outer feathers, rufous on the others ; 
head and neck like the back, and streaked with blackish 
centres to the feathers, with a faintly indicated pale eye- 
brow ; sides of face and sides of neck ashy-grey, as well as 
the fore-neck and chest, enclosing the white cheeks and throat, 
which form a white gorget, spotted or barred with lines of black ; 
breast and abdomen light ashy, as also the thighs, the vent 
whiter ; sides of body and flanks uniform cinnamon-brown, the 
flanks edged with white and centred with blackish-brown ; 
under tail-coverts white, with blackish centres ; under wing- 
coverts and axillaries ashy, washed with rufous, the edge of the 
