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ALPINE ACCENTOR. 
ALPINE WARBLER. COLLARED STARE. 
Accentor alpinus, FLEMING. SELBY. 
Motacilla alpina, GMELIN. 
Sturnus collaris, GMELIN. LATHAM. 
66 moritanicus, GMELIN. LATHAM, 
Accentor—A. chanter—canto, to sing—(a factitious word.) 
Alpinus— Alpine, 
For want of a vernacular name for this species, I am 
compelled for the present, much against my will, to adopt, 
as in some similar cases, one that I by no means approve 
of, but I have done so only as a temporary thing, and in 
hope of ‘a good time coming, when the Queen’s English 
shall ‘enjoy its own again’—a consummation much to be 
wished by every lover of his country’s tongue. 
This bird is not uncommon in Germany, France, Spain, 
Switzerland, and Italy; and Temminck includes it among the 
Asiatic species, as a native of Japan. It frequents the highest 
parts of any alpine districts, as its name suggests; this at 
least in summer, but in winter it seeks and finds a milder 
temperature in the warm and sheltered valleys, and thus, like 
the lowly and humble in life, escapes the severest of the 
storms and tempests which the lofty and the aspiring are, 
necessarily exposed to, in the higher atmosphere in which 
their lot is cast or their place chosen: in severe weather it 
approaches farm-yards, villages, and houses. 
One of these birds, a female, was observed in the garden 
of King’s College, Cambridge, on the 23rd. of November, 
1822, and obtained by the Provost, the Rev. Dr. Thackeray; 
another, no doubt the male, was seen by him at the same 
time, both together frequenting the grass-plots of the College 
garden, and climbing about the buttresses of the venerable 
building. A second was shot in a garden on the borders of 
