Distribution. The Himalayas from Afghanistan and Gilgit to Garhwal. Jerdon records this species from the Punjab Salt-llange. This Accentor is a winter visitor to the Himalayas, summering in Turkestan and other parts of Central Asia.
717. Tharrhaleus fulvescens. The Brown Accentor.
Accentor fulvescens, Severtz. Turl;e*t. Jerofn. pp. 66, 132 (1873) ; id. S. F. iii, p. 428; Biddulph, Ibis, J881, p. 75 ; *S'cw//y, Ibis, 1881, p. 569; Biddidph, Ibis, 1882, p. 281, pi. viii ; Shaiye, Cat. JB. M. vii, p. 655.
Accentor montanellus (Pall.), apud Scully, S. F. iv, p. 155 ; Hume, Cat. no. 655 his.
Coloration. Forehead, crown, and nape uniform dark brown, or sometimes dark brown with the feathers edged paler; a broad supercilium white or huffy white ; lores, ear-coverts, and under the eye dark brown ; back and scapulars ashy brown, sometimes tinged with fulvous, each feather with a broad dark brown streak ; rump and upper tail-coverts plain ashy brown ; wings and tail brown, edged with fulvous ; the wing-coverts and tertiaries tipped with huffy white ; lower plumage rich oehraceous buff, the flanks with a few darker streaks.
Bill black, brownish at base below ; iris very dark brown ; legs and feet fleshy ; claws dusky, yellowish at tips (Scully).
Length about 6 ; tail 2-6 ; wing 3 ; tarsus -8 ; bill from gape -6.
T. montanellus, Pallas, from Lake Baikal and Amurlaud, differs from the present species in having the back and scapulars rich chestnut-brown, the feathers edged with pale ashy, and the breast-fi -Mllicrs with partially concealed black bases. In both species the colour of the supercilium is liable to variation from buff to white. Distribution. Gilgit and Sikhim in winter only. Mandelli procured this species in the country north of Sikhim. It summers in Turkestan, Mongolia, and Southern Siberia.
718. Tharrhaleus strophiatus. The Rufous-breasted Accentor.
Accentor strophiatus, Hodys., Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 959 (1843) ; Bhjth, Cat. p. 131 j Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 360 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 287 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 401 ; id. Cat. no. 654 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 658.
Accentor multistriatus, David, A. M. N. H. (4), vii, p. 256 (1871).
Tharrhaleus strophiatus (Hodgs.), Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 113.
Phooching-pho, Lepch.
Coloration. The whole upper plumage rufous-brown streaked ith black: wings dark brown edged with rufous, the coverts tipped with fulvous on the outer web; tail brown; lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts black ; a broad supercilium, white in front of the eve, deep ferruginous behind, bordered above by a black band ; chin and throat white, spotted with black chiefly at the sides ; sides
