Editing Accentor (section)

==Taxonomy and etymology==
The genus ''Prunella'' was introduced by the French ornithologist [[Louis Pierre Vieillot|Louis Vieillot]] in 1816 with the [[dunnock]] (''Prunella modularis'') as the [[type species]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Vieillot  | first=Louis Pierre | author-link=Louis Pierre Vieillot | year=1816 | title=Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire | publisher=Deterville/self |  location=Paris | page = 43 | language=French| url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9745205x/f49.image }}<!--BHL has a scan of an 1883 reprint - same pagination http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12830237 --></ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Paynter | editor2-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1964 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=10 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology  | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=3 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486192 }}</ref> Although the genus is usually used for all the accentors, the [[alpine accentor]] and [[Altai accentor]] are sometimes separated into the genus ''Laiscopus''.<ref name=hbw>{{ cite book | last=Hatchwell | first=B.J. | year=2005 | chapter=Family Prunellidae (Accentors) | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Christie | editor3-first=D.A. | title=Handbook of the Birds of the World | volume=10: Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes | location=Barcelona, Spain | publisher=Lynx Edicions | isbn=978-84-87334-72-6 | pages=496–513 | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofbirdso0010unse/page/496/mode/1up | chapter-url-access=registration }}</ref>

Harrison <ref>Harrison, ''An Atlas of the Birds of the Western Palaearctic'', 1982</ref> used the group name '''dunnock''' for all of the species, not just ''Prunella modularis'' (thus e.g. '''Japanese dunnock''' for ''P. rubida''); this usage is based on the oldest known name for any of the species (old English ''dun''-, brown, + -''ock'', small: "little brown bird"<ref>''[http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main Chambers Dictionary]''</ref>). ''Accentor'' derives from the old scientific name for the Alpine accentor (''Accentor collaris''). It comes from [[Late Latin]], meaning "sing with another" (ad + cantor).<ref name=OED>{{ OED |Accentor}}</ref> The genus name ''Prunella'' is from the German ''Braunelle'', "dunnock", a diminutive of ''braun'', "brown".<ref name =job>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A. | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location = London, United Kingdom | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page =[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n318 318]}}</ref>