ALPINE ACCENTOR. 
Epping Forest, in the county of Essex; and a third at Wells, 
in Somersetshire, in 1833, in the garden of the Very Rey. 
Dr. Goodenough, Dean of Wells; a fourth was seen by the 
Rev. R. Lubbock, at Oulton, in Suffolk, in the year, 1824, 
about the month of March; and a fifth is said to have been 
obtained in Devonshire. 
This species is peculiarly tame and confident in its habits, 
moving away but a short distance if nearly approached. It 
is mostly to be seen on rocks or on the ground, and seldom 
perches on trees; it frequently shufiles its wings and tail after 
the manner of the Dunnock. 
Its food consists of flies and other insects, grasshoppers, 
earwigs, ants’ eggs, and small seeds. 
Its note is described as resembling the syllables ‘tree, tree:’ 
its song is said to be pleasing. 
The nest is placed among stones or in some cavity or crevice 
of the mountain rock, as also at times, it is said, on the roofs 
of houses in such situations, as also under the shelter of the 
alpine rose or other low bush. It is made of moss and fine 
grass, and is lined with wool and hair. 
The eggs, four or five ia number, are of a beautiful hight - 
greenish blue colour. There are said to be two broods in 
the year. 
Male; length, six inches and a half to seven inches; bill, 
strong, straight, and fine-pointed; the upper bill is dusky 
black, yellowish white at the base; the lower bill is orange 
yellowish white, except at the tip, which is brownish black; 
iris, dark brown. Head, crown, and neck on the sides and 
back, dull light brownish grey; the latter in front is dull 
yellowish white, with a small black spot on each feather; 
nape, brownish grey; chin and throat, dull white, with a 
small black spot on each feather of a crescent shape, which 
loses or gains its perfect form according to the season of 
the year; it is bordered below with a black band; breast 
above, dark grey, varied lower down and on the sides with 
orange chesnut brown marks, the edges of the feathers white, 
and then greyish or yellowish white, tinged with yellowish 
brown, and spotted with darker brown; back, brown, the 
feathers being greyish brown on the edges, with longitudinal 
patches on the centre of each of dark blackish brown, more 
or less visible in different seasons of the year; on the lower 
part it is greyish brown, in some specimens reddish grey, 
with dark shaft streaks. 
