54. HAiipoEnTxcntJs. 357 



Toxostoma longirostre, Cah. Arch.f. Natimj. 1847, Baud i. p. 207. 

 Turdus luugrirostris, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. I'l^l (1847). 

 Harporhynehus loiigirostris, Cub. M>(.<. Hein. Th. i. p. 81 (1850) ; 



Bmrd',Rev. Amer. B. p. 3-52 (1858); id. U.S. Mex. B. Surv.'W. 



part 2, Birds, p. 13, pi. 14 (1859) ; Svlater, P. Z. S. 18;"9, pp. 3£9, 



302; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 352, pi. 52 (1800); Sclatn; Cat. 



Amir. B. p. 8 (1802); Baird, Beview Amer. B. p. 44 {l.-^(i4); 



Sumicftr. Mem. Bost. Sue. I^at. Hist. i. p. 543 (1809) ; Sd. ^- Salv. 



Komend. Av. Neotr. p. 3 (1873); Salv. ^- Gudm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., 



Aves, i. p. 31 (1879). 

 Mimus lougirostris, Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 203, no. 3852 (1809). 

 Harporh_\nclms rufus, var. loDgirostri.«, Coves, Key N. Amer. B. 



p. 75 "(1872); Baird, Breuer, i.^ Bidyw. X. Amer. B. i. p. 39 



(1874) ; Merrill, Proi: U. S. Nat. Mm. i. p. 119 (1878). ^ 

 HarpoiLynclius rufus, /3. longirostris, Coues, Birds Color. Vail. p. 03 



(1878). 

 Harporhyuchus rufus longu'ostris, Sennett, Bull. U.S. Geol. Sun: iv. 



p. 3 ; 'Bidyw. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 12 (1881). 



Adult. General colour above dull rufous, a little brighter on the 

 lower back, rump, and xipper tail-coverts ; av in g- coverts like the 

 back ; the median and greater series narrowly tipped with fulvous, 

 before which is a black subterminal bar ; bastard wing-feathers 

 dusky brown, edged with fulvous ; primary-coveits dull rutbus- 

 brown ; quills dark brown, externally rufous like the back, the 

 secondaries a little duller ; tail-feathers rufous-brown, margined with 

 brighter rufous, the two outer feathers with slightly indicated 

 fulvous tips ; head a little more dingy on the back, especially on 

 the forehead ; lores and feathers round the eye fulvescent ; ear- 

 covcits uniform brown; cheeks black, slightly mottled with white 

 bases ; throat huffy white ; remainder of under surface white tinged 

 with buff, and thickly spotted with triangidar marks of black, more 

 longitudinal on the tlanks, those on the abdomen thin and long ; 

 centre of abdomen uniform ercamy white : thighs whitish, mottlid 

 with black bases ; under tail-coverts ochraceous bufl', with arrow- 

 shaped dark-brown centres ; axillaries fulvous, centred with dark 

 brown ; wing-coverts whitish, also mottled with centres of dark 

 brown ; quills dull brown below, rufous along the inner web ; bill 

 and feet dull hazel-brown. Total length 11 inches, ciilmcn 1*4, 

 wing 3-75, tail 4-0, tarsus 1-3. 



The Mexican Brown Thrasher is confined in North America to the 

 vallev of the llio Grande, and extends to Mexico, where, however, 

 it appears to be confined to the eastern portion of the country from 

 the valley of the Eio Grande to the State of Vera Cruz. 



a. Ad. st. ]\lexico. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Mexico. Zoological Society. 



5. Harporhynehus ocellatus. 



Harporhynehus ocellatus, Sdaier, P. Z. S. 18('2, p. 18, pi. iii. ; id. ^^ 

 Salv. S'omend. Av. Neotr. p. 2 (1873) ; Sale, i^- Gudm. Biol. Centr.~ 

 Amer., Aves. i. p. 32 (1879). 



Mimus ocellatus, Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 263, no. 3849 (1869). 



Adult male (Oaxaca, S. Mexico ; A. Feuochio). General colour 



