BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 191 



TOXOSTOMA LONGIROSTRE LONGIROSTRE -Lafresnaye). 

 LONG-BILLED THRASHER. 



Similar to T. riifum, but color of up])er parts darker and duller 

 (nearer ])routs brown than cinnanion-rufous), with sides of head and 

 neck more o;ra3ash. 



Adidis {sexes alUce). — Al)ove |)laiu dull rufous-brown (nearly prouts 

 brown, becomino^ more chestnut-brown on rump, u])per tail-coverts, 

 tail, and secondaries), passino: into grayish brown on forehead and 

 into brownish gray on superciliar}?^ region, auricular region, and sides 

 of neck, the auricular region finely streaked with whitish; middle and 

 greater wing-coverts tipped with buff or buily white, forming two 

 distinct but narrow bands across wing, each innnediately ]>receded by 

 a narrower and much less distinct bar of dusky; lateral rectrices 

 narrowly margined at tip with huffy (exce]>t in worn ])lumage) ; 

 malar region whitish, more or less flecked or barred with grayish 

 brown or dusky, especially the posterior portion; under parts huffy 

 white (more strongly tinged with Imil" on chest and under tail-coverts) 

 or pale buff; sides of throat margined with a series of black streaks, 

 forming a broken submalar stripe; lower throat, chest, upper breast, 

 sides, and flanks broadly streaked with black, the streaks shorter and 

 more wedge-shaped on pectoral region, longer and more elli])tical on 

 flanks; under tail-coverts ])ale buff or brownish buff, each with a 

 central, mostly concealed, w^edge-shaped area of light ])rown, or Iniii'y, 

 this often with a A^-shaped margin of dusky; bill dusk^', with lower 

 portion of mandibular rami pale colored (fleshy in life'O; iris bright 

 yellow^; legs and feet horn color (in dried skins). 



Young. — Essentially like adults but rump j^aler and indistinctly 

 streaked with dusky, and blackish streaks of under ])arts less sharply 

 defined. 



Adult male. -~\.i.m<^{\i (skins), 250-267 (262); wing, 95-99.5 (97.4); 

 tail, 123-126 (124.1); exposed culmen, 27.5-81 (29.4); tarsus, 34.5-36 

 (35.1); middle toe, 22-24.5 (23.2).° 



Adult female. ~l.ei\o:^i\\ (skins), 263-265 (264); wing, 93-94.5 

 (93.7); tail, 120-125 (122.5); exposed culmen, 30-32 (31); tarsus, 

 34.5-35 (34.7); middle toe, 23-24 (23.5).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Mirador; 

 Jico; Cordova; Orizaba), Queretaro (Jalpan), Mexico (City of Mexico) 

 and Puebla (Metlaltoyuca). 



[OrpheiiR] lon'jimslrift Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., i, 1838, 55, in text (-'Mexiqiic et 

 delaralifornie"); Mag. do Zool., 2" sor., 1839, Oi^., pi. 1; Isi?. Bd. xxxvii, 

 1844, 409. 

 Toxostoma longirosire Cabanis, in Wiegniann's Arcliiv. I'lir Xaturg., 1847 (i), 207. 

 T[vrdus] longirostris Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 221. 

 [Toxostoma] longirostris Bon.\parte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 277. 



a Six specimens. ^ Two specimens. 



