252 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Breeds mainly in the Transition and Austral zones from central 

 British Columbia, southern Alberta, central Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, 

 southern Ontario, southern Quebec, and Nova Scotia south to western Wash- 

 ington (rarely), northeastern Oregon, northern Utah, northeastern New Mex- 

 ico, southeastern Texas, central Alabama, central Georgia, and northern 

 Florida; resident in Bermuda. Winters from the Southern States to the Baha- 

 mas and Cuba and through Mexico to Panama; casual in winter north to Wis- 

 consin, the Middle States, and Massachusetts. Accidental on the Farallon 

 Islands and in Europe. 



Genus TOXOSTOMA Wagler. 



Toxostoma Wagler, Isis von Oken, [XXIV] 1831, Heft v (May), col. 528. 

 Type, by monotypy, Toxostoma vetula Wagler = Orpheus curvirostris 

 Swainson. 



Tox6stomarufiim (Linnaeus). Brown Thrasher. [705.] 



Turdus rujus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 169. Based on the 

 Fox-coloured Thrush, Turdus ruffus Catesby, Carolina, I, 2S. (in 

 America septentrionali = South Carolina.) 



Range. — -Breeds mainly in the Transition and Austral zones from southern 

 Alberta, southern Manitoba, northern Michigan, southeastern Ontario, south- 

 western Quebec, and northern Maine south to the Gulf coast of eastern 

 Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and central Florida, and from the base of the 

 Rocky Mountains in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado eastward. Winters 

 from southeastern Missouri and North Carolina to central southern Texas, 

 central Florida, and casually farther north. Accidental in Arizona and Europe. 



Toxostoma longirostre sennetti (Ridgway). Sennett's Thrasher. [706.] 



Harporhynchus longirostris sennetti Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 

 1888, 506 [Aug. 6]. (Southern Texas = Lomita, near Hidalgo, Texas.) 



Range. — Lower Austral and upper Tropical zones from the lower Rio 

 Grande Valley and Gulf coast of Texas (Corpus Christi) south to central 

 Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and San Luis PotosI; occasionally north 

 to Galveston. [A closely aUied race occurs in southeastern Mexico.] 



Toxostoma cinereum cinereum (Xantus). San Lucas Thrasher. [709.] 



Harporhynchus cinereus Xantus, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XI] 1859, 

 sig. 21-23 [Jan. 12, 1860], 298. (Cape St. Lucas, Lower California.) 



Range. — Lower Austral and Arid Tropical zones of Lower California from 

 about lat. 28° southward. 



Toxostoma cinereum meamsi (Anthony) . Meams's Thrasher. [709a.] 



Harporhynchus cinereus meamsi Anthony, Auk, XII, No. 1, Jan., 1895, 

 53. (San Quintin, Lower California.) 



