360 TTMEI.ITP.B. 



Palmer's Curve-billed Thrasher inhaliits Arizona, -where it repre- 

 sents H. nirvirostris. 



S. Harporhynchus redivivus. 



Harpes rediviva, Gamhel, Proc. Philud. Acad. ii. p. 2(U (1845). 

 Toxostoma rediviva, Gamhd, Joiirn. P/iilnd. Acad. :2iid ser. i. p. 42 



(1847) ; £p. Consp. i. p. 277 (1850) ; Cass. B. Calif, p. 2G0, pi. 42 



(1856). 

 Harporiivnchus redivivus, Cah. Arch. f. Naturg. 1848, p. 98; id. 



Mils. Hein. Th. i. p. 8, note (1850); Baird, B. X. Amer. p. 349 



(1858) ; Sclafer, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 339 ; Baird, Revieiv Amer. B. 



p. 48 (1864) ; Cooper, Orn. Calif, p. 15 (1870) ; Coues, Key N. 



Amer. B. p. 75 (1872) ; id. Am. Nat. vii. p. 327, fig. 66 (1873) ; 



Baird, Brewer, S,- Bidt/iv. X. Amer. B. i. p. 45, pi. 4. fig. 4 (1874) ; 



Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 71, note, fig. 12 (1878); Bidffw. Bull. 

 U.S. Nat. Mas. no. 21, p. 12 (1881). 

 Toxostoma redivivum, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 126. 

 Miinus redivivus, Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 263, uo. 3846 (1869). 

 Furnarius mexicanus, Gould (ubi ?). 



Adult male. General colour above dark brovrn, the wing-coverts 

 like the back, with obsolete pale spots at the end of the median and 

 greater coverts, the latter also margined -nith light reddish brown ; 

 primary- coverts dusky brown ; quills dark brown, externally edged 

 with dull reddish brown ; tail-feathers dark brown, margined with 

 lio-hter brown, the outer feathers paler brown at the ends ; lores 

 ashy, mottled with blackish ; from the base of the forehead a line 

 of ashy whitish extending above the fore part of the eye ; feathers 

 below "the eye and the ear-coverts dark brown, the feathers streaked 

 with ashy white ; cheeks dark brown, the malar line and the throat 

 white : lower throat, fore neck, and breast as well as the sides of 

 the body ashy brown ; centre of breast and abdomen light ochreous 

 buff, deepening into i,awny buff on the under tail-coverts, which 

 have also whitish tips ; thighs ashy brown ; asillaries and under 

 wing-coverts ashy brown, slightly tinged with reddish brown ; 

 quills dusky brown below, edged with reddish brown along the 

 inner web. " Total length 11 inches, culmen 1-65, wing 4-2, tail 

 5"25, tarsus 1-55. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 10'5 

 inches, cidmen 1-6, wing 4-05, tail 5-1, tarsus 1-5. 



Young. Similar in colour to the adults, but having a much 

 shorter bill, and being rather more rufescent in colour, especially on 

 the flanks and under tail-coverts and on the ends of the outer tail- 

 feathers ; the wing-coverts, quiUs, and tail-feathers all edged with 

 rufous-brown. 



The Californian Thrasher is only found on the coast-region of 

 California. 



a. (S ad. sk. Big Trees, Santa Cruz, A. Forrer [C.]. 



Califurnia. April 2G. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Big Trees, May 14. A. Forrer [C.l. 



c. Juv. sk. Big Trees, May 30. A. Forrer [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. [Mexico.] Zoological Society. (Type of 



lurnarius me.vicanus, Gould.) 



