196 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 214-250 (235) ; wing, 96-104.5 (101.5); 

 tail, 98-109 (105.3); exposed culmen, 24.5-29 (27.8); tarsus, 33-34.5 

 (33.6) ; middle toe, 21.5-24 (23.3). « 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 217-243 (233) ; wing, 95.5-102.5 

 (99.3); tail, 101.5-110.5 (105); exposed cidmen, 27-28.5 (27.7); tar- 

 sus, 30-33 (31.8) ; middle toe, 21-23.5 (22.5).« 



Cape district of Lower California (Cape San Lucas ; San Jose del 

 Cabo; La Paz), northward along Pacific coast to about 30 miles north 

 of Todos Santos. 



Harporhynchus cinereus Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila.. xi, Nov., 1859, 298 

 (Cape San Lucas, Lower California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Baird, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., xi, 1859, 301, 303, 304; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 46.— 

 ScLATER, ('at. Am. Birds, 1862, 8. — Elliot, Illustr.' New and Unfig. Birds 

 N. Am., 1869, pi. 1.— Cooper, Orn. Cal.. i, 1870, 19 (Cape San Lucas).— 

 CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 12; 2d ed., 1882, no. 22; Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 

 327, 331 (crit.); Birds Col. Val., 1878, 68, footnote.— Baird, Brewer, and 

 RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 40, pi. 4, fig. 2.— Ridgway, Nom. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1881, no. 14.— Sharpb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 355 (La 

 Paz, Lower California. — Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 345 (Pacific 

 coast, Lower California, from Cape San Lucas to 30 miles north of Todos San- 

 tos). — American Ornithologists' LTnion, Check List, 1886, no-. 709.— 

 Townsend (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 136 (Cape San Lucas). 



[Harporhynchus] cinereus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 75. 



H[(trporhynchus] cinereus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed.. 1884, 253; 5th ed., 

 i, 1903, 287.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887. 544. 



3I[cthrioptcrus] cinereus Ridgway, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., v, sig. 3. June 12, 1882, 

 45, in text. 



Methrioplerus cinereus Ridc;way and Belding, Proc. \J. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 

 534 (La Paz and San Jose, Lower California). 



Toxostoma cinerea Richmond, Auk, xix, Jan., 1902, 89, in text. 



Toxostoma cinereum American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xix, 

 July, 1902, 328.— Brewster, Bull. Mus.-Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 195 (Cape 

 San Lucas district, up to 3,000 ft.; descriptions: descr. nest and eggs). 



[Toxostoma] cinereum. Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 106. 



TOXOSTOMA CINEREUM MEARNSI (Anthony). 

 MEARNS' THRASHER. 



Similar to T. c. cinereum, but much darker, the upper parts dark 

 hair brown or between hair brown and sepia (rump and upper tail- 

 coverts between mars brown and raw umber), the under parts pale 

 buff, deepening into ochraceous-buff on flanks, anal region, and 

 under tail-coverts, and black markings on chest, etc., much larger. 



Adult {male?) — Length (skin), 240; wing, 106; tail, 109; exposed 

 culmen, 27; tarsus, 33; middle toe, 25. '' 



Vicinity of San Quentin Bay, west-central Lower California (San 

 Quentin; San Fernando). 



a Seven specimens. &One specimen (the type). 



