Editing Alpine accentor (section)

==Taxonomy==
The Alpine accentor was [[species description|described]] by the Austrian naturalist [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]] in 1769. He coined the [[binomial name]] ''Sturnus collaris'' and specified the [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] as the [[Carinthia]] region of southern Austria.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Scopoli | first=Giovanni Antonio | author-link=Giovanni Antonio Scopoli  | year=1769 | title=Annus I Historico-Naturalis | language=la | place=Lipsiae (Leipzig) | publisher= C.G. Hilscheri | page=131 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31117758 }}</ref> The [[specific epithet]] is from the [[Latin]] ''collaris'' "of the neck".<ref name=hbwkey>{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2019 | title= Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/collaris | access-date=11 March 2019 }}</ref> This species is now placed in the [[genus]] ''[[Prunella (bird)|Prunella]]'' that was introduced by the French ornithologist [[Louis Pierre Vieillot]] in 1816.<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=fr| 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> The Alpine accentor, along with the [[Altai accentor]] is sometimes separated from the other accentors, into the genus ''Laiscopus''.<ref>HBW volume 10, page 496</ref>

The word "accentor" is from post-classical [[Latin]] and means a person who sings with another.<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>

Nine [[subspecies]] are recognised:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/waxbills/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=11 March 2019 }}</ref>
* ''P. c. collaris'' <small>([[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli|Scopoli]], 1769)</small> — southwest Europe to Slovenia and the Carpathians, northwest Africa
* ''P. c. subalpina'' <small>([[Christian Ludwig Brehm|Brehm, CL]], 1831)</small> — Croatia to Bulgaria and Greece, Crete and southwest Turkey
* ''P. c. montana'' <small>([[Carl Ludwig Hablitz|Hablizl]], 1783)</small> — north and east Turkey to the Caucasus and Iran
* ''P. c. rufilata'' <small>([[Nikolai Severtzov|Severtzov]], 1879)</small> — northeast Afghanistan and north Pakistan through the mountains of central Asia to west China
* ''P. c. whymperi'' <small>([[E. C. Stuart Baker|Baker, ECS]], 1915)</small> — west Himalayas
* ''P. c. nipalensis'' <small>([[Edward Blyth|Blyth]], 1843)</small> — central and east Himalayas to southcentral China and north Myanmar
* ''P. c. tibetana'' <small>([[Valentin Bianchi|Bianchi]], 1905)</small> — east Tibet
* ''P. c. erythropygia'' <small>([[Robert Swinhoe|R. Swinhoe]], 1870)</small> — east Kazakhstan and southcentral Siberia to northeast Siberia, Japan, Korea and northeast China
* ''P. c. fennelli'' <small>[[Herbert Girton Deignan|Deignan]], 1964</small> — Taiwan