358 TDIELIIDJ2. 



above ashy brown, slightly washed with clearer brown on the lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; least wing-coverts like the back, 

 the median and greater series more dusky brown, becoming subter- 

 minally blacker and having a white spot at the tip ; primary-coverts 

 also dusky brown, edged with whitish ; wing-feathers dark brown, 

 externally like the back, the outer primaries margined with whity 

 brown ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged with lighter brown, all but 

 the centre feathers tipped with white, before which is a narrow sub- 

 terminal line of black ; lores and a narrow eyebrow ashy fulvous ; 

 sides of face and ear-coverts light brown, the feathers about the 

 angle of the mouth blackish ; plumes at base of lower mandible 

 whitish ; throat pure white ; remainder of under surface of body 

 white, spotted with black, these spots being very large on the fore 

 neck and breast, and much smaller on the middle of the breast and 

 sides of abdomen ; c mtre of abdomen white, unspotted ; thighs ashy 

 brown ; under tail-coverts white, barred with light brown, each 

 bar of the latter colour having a conterminous dark-brown bar ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries pale drab-brown, with a blackish 

 spot near the end ; edge of wing white, spotted with black ; quills 

 dusky brown below, ashy fulvous along the edge of the inner web ; 

 bill black ; feet coral-red. Total length 11-25 inches, culmen 1-5, 

 wing 4" 15, tail 5-05, tarsus 1'45. (Mus. Salvin and Godman.) 



The Ocellated Thrasher has only been found as yet in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Oaxaca in Mexico. 



6. Harporhynchus curvirostris. 



Orpheus cmwirostris, Su-ains. Philos. Mag. new series, i. p. 369, 



(1827). 

 Pomatorhimis turdinus, Temm. PI. Col. ii. pi. 441 (1827). 

 Turdus defiexus, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Fo (7. p. 2 (18.50) ; Cab. J. 



f. O. 18e3, p. 57. 

 Toxostoma vetula, Wagler, Isis, 1831, p. 528. 

 Mimus curvirostris, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 221 (1847) ; id. JIand-l. B. i. 



p. 2153, no. 3845. 

 Toxostoma curvirostris, Bp. Consp. i. p. 277 (IS;")©). 

 Harporhynchus curvirostris, Cab. Mi/s. ILin. Th. i. p. 81, note (I80O) ; 



Baird, Birds N. Amer. p. 351 (1858); id. Birds U.S. Me.t: B. 



Sun. ii. pt. 2, Birds, p. 12, pi. 13 (18-59) ; Sckder, P. Z. S. 18,j9, 



pp. 339, 370 ; Bfdrd, B. N. Awer. 1860, p. 351, pi. 35 ; id. Bcview 



At?ier. B. p. 45 (1864); Dresser, Biis, 1865, p. 482; Sumichr. 



Mem. Bosf. Soc. N. H. i. p. 543 (1809) ; Laur. op. cit. ii. p. 267 ; 



Scl. 8)- Sale. Nomcncl. Ar. Neotr. p. 3(1873); Cows, Am. Nat. 



vii. p. 328 (1873) ; Baird, Brewer, 8,- Ridgiv. N. Amer. B. i. p. 41, 



pi. 3. tig. 3 (1«74); Lawr. Bull. U^S. Kat. Mus. part iv. p. 12 



(1878) ; Merrill, t. c. p. 119 (1878)'; '; Sennett, Bull. U.S. Geol. 

 Surv. iv. p. 4; Salr. <^- Godm. Biol. ' Cent.- Amer., Ares, i. p. 32 



(1879) ; Bidffw., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 24, p. 12 (1881). 

 Toxostoma cur'virostre, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 212. 

 Harporhynchus ciu-virostris, var. ciu'virostris, Baird, Bretrer, ^ 



Bidyw. N. Amer. B. i. p. 30; Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 64 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above light ashy brown, the lesser wing- 



