. A history of British birds . lines at the end of eachfeather; tail light bay, the two middle feathers ash-brown. A young bird of the year, killed near Geneva in July, 1850,and kindly lent to me by Captain G. J. Johnson, formerly ofthe Coldstream Guards, has all the upper parts light ash-brown, each feather terminated with a spot of greyish-white. Wing-quills tipped with buffy-white : wing-covertsedged with grey and tipped with buffy-white ; tail red; thetwo middle feathers greyish-black ; the body beneath some-thing like that of the adult female, but more varied withwhite, which is again int
. A history of British birds . lines at the end of eachfeather; tail light bay, the two middle feathers ash-brown. A young bird of the year, killed near Geneva in July, 1850,and kindly lent to me by Captain G. J. Johnson, formerly ofthe Coldstream Guards, has all the upper parts light ash-brown, each feather terminated with a spot of greyish-white. Wing-quills tipped with buffy-white : wing-covertsedged with grey and tipped with buffy-white ; tail red; thetwo middle feathers greyish-black ; the body beneath some-thing like that of the adult female, but more varied withwhite, which is again intersected with brown lines. Mr. Blake-Knox has recorded (Zool. p. 2019) the occur-rence in Westmeath, on the 17th of November, 186G, of anexample of the Blue Thrush {Monticola cyamis), which isnow in the Museum of the Eoyal Dublin Society. Thesouthern range of this species, even though it has occurredas a straggler in Heligoland, seems to render its enrolmentas a British bird inexpedient. 296 PASSERES. SYLVIII)^. Accentor collaris (Scopoli*). THE ALPINE ACCENTOR. Accentor aljiinusj. Accentor, BcclisteinX-—Bill strong, broatl at the base; the upper niandilileoverlapping the lower and slightly notched near the tip. Nostrils basal, obliqueand linear. Wings moderate, more or less rounded ; the first feather very short,the third generally the longest. Legs strong ; the tarsi feathered at the upperend, and covered in front with several broad scales ; the outer toe joined at itsbase to the middle toe ; the claw of the hind toe much the longest. By the kindness of the late Dr. Thackeray, I am enabledto give a figure of the Alpine Accentor from the female speci-men killed in what was then the garden of Kings College,Cambridge, on the 22nd of November, 1822, and recordedin the Zoological Journal for 1824 (i. p. 134). At thattime two of these birds had been occasionally seen climbingabout the buildings or feeding on the grass-plots, and were80 tame that one of them was su
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