362 TIMELIID^. 



Am. JNV. vi. p. 370 (187i') ; Bainl, Brewer, ^- Eidr/io. N. Aimr. 

 B. i. p. 47, pi. 4. tig. 1 (1874) ; Coues, B. Color. Vail p. 73 (1878) ; 

 Rkh/ic. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. uo. 24, p. 12 (1881). 

 Mimus crissalis, Gra)/, Iland-l. B. i. p. 2G3, no. 3848 (18G9). 



Adult male. Brownish ash, with a faint olive shade, the wings 

 and tail purer and darker fuscous, without white edging or tipping ; 

 below a pale shade ot the colour of the upper parts ; throat and 

 sides of the lower jaw white, with sharp black maxillarj- streaks ; 

 cheeks and auriculars speckled with whitish. Under tail-coverts 

 deep rich chestnut, in marked contrast with the surrounding parts. 

 Bill black, slenderer for its length than that of any other species, as 

 long as that of H. redivivus, arcuate. Length about 12 inches, wing 4, 

 or rather less ; tail about 6 (more or less, thus absolutely longer than 

 in any other species), its lateral feathers 1| shorter than the central 

 ones ; bill 1|, tarsus 1|, middle toe and claw l,j. (Coues.) 



The Ilufous-vented Thrasher is confined to the south-western 

 United States of North America, being found in Arizona, New 

 Mexico, Southern Utah and California in the Colorado valley. It 

 has been found breeding in Southern Utah and, in Arizona. 



55. MELANOTIS. 



Type. 

 Melanotis, Bj). Consp. Av.i. p. 276 (18-50, descr. nulla-, 



unde) M. cserulescens. 



Melanotis, Baird, Revieio Amcr. B. p. 56 (1864) .... M. cferulescens. 



Ranr/e. Confined to Central America, where it is found in Mexico 

 and Guatemala ; it also occurs in the Tres Marias Islands. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Underneath slaty blue, with lanceolate streaks of 



brighter blue ou the throat and breast C(pnilescens, p. 362. 



b. I'nderueatli wliite, the sides of breast, flanks, 



thighs, and under tail-coverts slaty blue hypoleuciis, p. 363. 



1. Melanotis caerulescens. 



Orpheus crerulescens, Swains. Phil. Mag. new series, i. p. 369 (1827). 



Tardus melanotis, Temm. PI. Col. ii. pi. 498 (1830). 



Turilus ervthrophthalmus, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog. p. 2 (1830) ; 



Cah. J.'f. O. 1863, p. 57. 

 Mimus cierulescens, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 221(1847) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 



1856, p. 294; Gruij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 262, no. 3838 (1869). 

 Melanotis melanotis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 276 (1850). 

 Melanotis caerulescens, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 362, 370 ; id. Cat. 



Amer. B. p. 7 (1862) ; Baird, Revino Atner. B. p. 56 (1804) ; 



Sumichr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. II. i. p. 543 (1868) ; Grayson, Proc. 



Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 275 (1871) ; Later. Mem. Bust. Soc. ii. 



p. 266; Scl. 8) Sah: Nommcl. Av. Neotr. p. 3 (1873) ; Laivr. Bull. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. i. no. 4, p. 12 (1876) j Salv. ^- Godiv. Biol. Centr.- 



Amer., Aves, i. p. 28 (1879). 



