Perching Birds Chiefly Dull Colored. 



7 10. Californian Thrasher [Toxostoma redivwum). 



L. 12. Ads. Above grayish brown; belly distinctly 

 buff; breast grayish, throat whitish, washed with buff; 

 no white in wings or tail. Notes. Song suggesting 

 both that of the Brown Thrasher and the Mockingbird. 



Range, — California west of the Sierra Nevada, north to about Lat. 

 35° ; south into Lower California. 



7 I Oa. Pasadena Thrasher ( T. r.pasadenense). Sim- 

 ilar to No. 710, but grayer above; belly paler, throat 

 whiter. 



Range. — Southern California. 



7 11. Leconte Thrasher {Toxostoma lecontei). L. 

 10.5. Ads. Above brownish ashy, below creamy 

 white, under tail-coverts buff. Notes. Call, a sharply 

 reiterated whit or quit; song, remarkable for its loud 

 rich tone; can be heard distinctly for more than a mile. 

 (Mearns.) Call, low and musical, huee-e, whistled 

 through the teeth. (Stephens.) 



Range. — "Desert region of southern California, Nevada, and ex- 

 treme southwestern Utah, from Benton, Cal. (Lat. 38 ° ), southeast- 

 ward through Arizona to Sonora (Lat. 30 ). Local in San Joaquin 

 Valley." (A.O.U.) 



7 Ma. Desert Thrasher (T. /. arenicola). Differ- 

 ing from No. 711 in having upperparts darker and 

 grayer, tail blacker, and breast gray. (Anthony.) 



Range. — Northern Lower California. (Rosalia Bay.) 



712. Crissal Thrasher {Toxostoma crissalis). L. 

 12. Ads. Under tail-coverts reddish chestnut; upper- 

 parts brownish gray; underparts ashy, chin white. 

 Notes. No loud call note; song of remarkable scope 

 and sweetness. (Mearns.) 



Range. — "Southwestern United States, from western Texas to the 

 Colorado Desert, California, and northern Lower California; north to 

 Charleston Mountains, Nevada, and St. George, Utah." (A. O. U.) 



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