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Harporhynchits cinereiis mearnsi A-N-nio-NY, Auk, xii, Jan., 1895, 53 (San Quentin, 

 Lower California; coll. A. ^\'. Anthony); Auk, xii, 1895, 142 (San Fer- 

 nando, San Quentin, etc.). — American Onithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 709fl.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 

 G09. 



E[arpofhijnchus] c[inrn'us] mearnsi Coues, KeyN. Am. Birds, 5th ed., i, 1903,288. 



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



Toxostoma cinereum mearnsi American Ornithologists' Union Committee 

 Auk, xix, July, 1902, 328. 



[Toxostoma] mearnsi Sharps. Hand-list, W. 1903, KXi. 



TOXOSTOMA BENDIREI (Coues). 

 BENDIRE'S THRASHER. 



Similar in coloration to T. curvirostr is pal tneri hut browner above 

 and with sjjots on chest smaller, more sharply defined, and more 

 triangidar, and pro])ortions very different. 



Adults in spring and summer. — Above plain light grayish l)rown 

 (light hair brown or between hair brcnvn and broccoli brown), the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts ])aler, more wood brown, the remiges and 

 rectrices slightly darker; middle and greater wing-coverts indistinctly 

 tipped with paler, and remiges narrowly edged with the same; inner 

 web of exterior rectrices rather broadly tipped with dull white or 

 brownish white, the outer web much more narrowly tipped or ter- 

 minally margined with the same — the remaining rectrices (except 

 middle pair) similarly tipped with whitish, but to a less extent, 

 gradually disappearing toward middle rectrices ; sides of head similar 

 in color to upper parts but superciliary and loral regions paler, and 

 auricular region narrowly streaked with dull whitish; malar region 

 and under parts dull huffy white or pale brownish buff, passing into 

 decided brownish buff or pale huffy wood brown on flanks, anal region, 

 and lower tail-coverts; chest (sometimes sides of lower throat also) 

 with shar])ly defined small wedge-shaped streaks of grayish brown, 

 the breast more sparsel}^ marked with more roundish spots of a paler 

 grayish brown, the flanks sometimes indistinctly streaked with the 

 same; sides of throat margined with a more or less distinct series of 

 wedge-shaped streaks or small spots of grayish brown; axillars and 

 under wing-coverts light buff}^ wood brown; bill dusky horn color or 

 blackish, with basal third (approximately) of mandible pale brownish; 

 iris yellow; tarsi light brownish (in dried skins), the toes darker." 



Adults in autumn and winter. — Similar to the spring and simmier 

 plumage, but color of upper parts grayer (between hair brown and 

 drab-gray), tertials margined terminally with dull whitish, and mark- 

 ings on chest darker. 



a According to Mr. F. Stephens the legs are "dull bluish" in life. (Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 70). 



