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Analysis of Species and Siibspeeies. 



Bill not longer than head (0.87-1. 1'2), little or not curved. Breast spotted. {Siibgemis Methriopterus.) 



Bill 1.00, quite straight. Above rich rusty-red ; below whitish, heavily spotted and streaked with dark 



brown. Eastern rufus 



Bill 1.1'2, slightly curved. Above dark reddisli-browu, below wliitish, heavily spotted and streaked with 



blackish. Texas longirostris sennetti 



Bill 1.12, curved. Above ashy-gray, below whitish, breast with round spots of the color of the back. 



Mexican border and Arizona curvirostris a.ii6.c. palmeri. 



Bill 0.87, scarcely curved. Above grayish-brown, below brownish-white, breast alone with arrow-heads 



of the color of the back. Arizona hendirei 



Bill 1.12, curved. Above ashy-gray, below whitish, vritlj profuse distinct blackish-brown spots. Lower 



California cinereus and c. mearnsi 



Bill longer than head (1.50), arcuate. Breast not spotted. (Harporhynchtjs proper.) 



Dark oily olive-brown, below paler, belly and crissum rufescent. Coast of California redirirus 



Pale ash, paler still below, lower belly aud crissum brownish-yellow. Arizona and Lower 



California lecontei and /. nrenicola 



Brownish-asli, paler below, crissum chestnut in marked contrast. Arizona, New Mexico, and 



California crissalis 



{Subgenus Methriopterus.) 

 H, ru'fus. (Lat. rufus, rufous, reddish. Figs. 146, 147.) Thrasher. Ground Thrush. 

 Brown Thrush. Red Thrush. Ferruginous Mockingbird. Sandy Mockingbird. 

 French Mockingbird. Mavis. $ 9 , adult : Upper parts uniform rich rust-red, with a 

 bronzy lustre. Concealed portions of quills fuscous; greater and median wing-coverts blackisli 

 near ends, then conspicuously tipped 

 with white ; bastard quills like the cov- 

 erts. Tail like back, the lateral feathers 

 with paler ends. Under parts white, 

 more or less strongly tinged, especially 

 on breast, flanks, and crissum, with 

 tawny or pale cinnamon-brown ; breasts 

 and sides marked with a profusion of 

 well-defined spots of dark brown, oval 

 in front, becoming more linear poste- 

 riorly. Throat immaculate, bordered 

 with a necklace of spots; middle of 

 belly and under tail-coverts likewise 

 unspotted. Bill quite straight, black, 

 with yellow base of the lower mandible ; ^''o- 14G. - Thrasher, nat. size. (ad. nat. del. E. C.) 



feet pale ; iris yellow or orange. Young sufficiently similar to be unmistakable. Length about 

 1 1.00 ; extent r2.r)0-14.00 ; wing 3.75-4.25 ; tail 5.00 or more ; bill 1.00 ; tarsus 1.25. Eastern 

 U. S. cliiefly, but N. to adjoining British Provinces and W. to the Rocky Mts. ; migratory, but 

 breeds throughout its range, and winters in the Southern States. A delightful songster, abun- 

 dant in thickets and shrubbery. Nest in bushes (sometimes on ground), bulky and rude, of 

 sticks, leaves, bark, roots, etc.; eggs 3-5, .sometimes 6, 1.05 X 0.80, whitish or greenish, 

 profusely speckled with brown. 



H. longiros'tris sen'netti. (Lat. longus, long, and rostris, from rostrum, hoik; i. e., long- 

 billed. To Georijc H. Sennett.) Texas Thrasher. Sennett's Thrasher. Similar to 

 H. rufiis; upper parts dark reddi.sh -brown, instead of rich foxy-red; under parts white, with 

 little if any tawny tinge, the spots large, very numerous, and blackish instead of brown ; ends 

 of rectrices scarcely or not lighter than the rest of these featliers ; bill almost entirely dark- 

 colored. Besides these points of coloration, there is a decided difference in shape of bill. In 



