54. HARroRnYNcnus. 353 



54. HARPORHYNCHUS. 



Type. 



Toxostoma, Wagler, Isis, 1831, p. 528 {nee Rajin, 



1815) PI. curvirostris, 



Harpes, Gamhvl, Proc. Acad. Philud. ii. p. 264 (1845, 



nee Goldf. 18;39) H. redivivus. 



Hai'porhynchus, Cab. Arch. f. Naturg. 1848, Bd. i. 



p. 98 H. redivivus. 



Metliriopteru8, Beichmb. Si/st. Av. pi. 55. fig. 5 (1850). 



Antimimus, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 13 (1872) .... H. rufus. 



Cf. Coues, Am. Nat. vii. pp. 326-331 ; id. B. Color. Vail. pp. 60-75. 



Range. All over the United States, from Lake Winnipeg south- 

 wards to Mexico and Socorro Island. The genus reaches its greatest 

 development in the South-western United States, where a large pro- 

 portion of the species are found. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Breast spotted. 



a'. Spots on breast black, very distinct. 



a". Under tail-coverts uniform bull', without 

 brown bases or central markings. 

 a"'. General colour above bright rufous, as also 

 the tail, which has paler and more ful- 

 vous ends to the feathers rufus, p. 353. 



6'". General colour ashy brown, as also the 

 tail, the two outermost feathers of which 



have a laryre white spot at the end of the , • n~~ 



T^ ^ cinereus, p. 35o. 



inner web 7 /• . •• o-f 



b". Under tail-coverts mottled with brown cen- ' ' ' P- 

 tral markings or dark bases. 

 c'". Upper surface rufous ; no white tips to 

 the tail-feathers; spots on breast trian- 

 gular longirostris, p. 356. 



d"'. Upper surface ashy brown ; tail-feathers 

 narrowly tipped with white ; spots on 



breast rounded ocellatus, p. 357. 



b'. Spots on breast ashy brown ; under tail-coverts 



uniform ; tail-feathers broadly tipped with , ... 0=0 



, .. ' J ff curvirostns, p. 358. 



white \ , . • 'orq 



b. Breast uniform, without any spots. '" '"' 



c: Vent and under tail-coverts hght ochraceous. ^ ,.,j^^i 330. 



c . Flanks umiorm ^ ^^^.^^^..^ ^^.^^.^^ 



d". Flanks striped with brown graysoni, p. 361. 



d'. Vent aud under tail-coverts deep chestnut . . crissalis, p. 361. 



I. Harporhynchus rufus. 



The Fox-coloured Thrush, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carol i. p. 28, pi. 28 



(1731). 

 La Grive de la Caroline, i?;-(.ss. Orn. ii. p. 223 (1700). 

 Turdus rufus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 2t)3 (1766); Viedl. Ois. Amer. 



sept. ii. pi. lix. (1802) ; Aiidiib. B. Arncr. ])1. cxvi. ; id. Orn. Biogr. 



ii. p. 102 ( 1S34) ; Gitll;c, Naiim. lsri(), p. 71, et 1858, p. 424 ; j5m- 



bois, Ois. d'Eur. p. 51, pi. 51 (1862). 



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