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species: it is equally remarkable in almost all other insectivorous 
birds.” 
I have given these accounts, as I remarked before, for the 
purpose of removing a prejudice that is too well established 
against this bird. Instances like the above might be pre- 
sented to almost any extent; but my limits will not permit 
a further notice of this species. ” 
Sub-Family Mounz. — Mocking Birds. 
Tail long, vaulted at the base, the feathers more or less graduated; size large; 
general appearance thrush-like; rictus with distinct bristles; frontal feathers normal, 
directed backwards; anterior half of outer side of tarsi distinctly scutellate. 
1 HARPORHYNCHUS, Casanlis. 
Harporhynchus, CaABants, Wiegmann’s Archiv. (1848), I. 98. (Type Harpes 
redivivus.) 
Bill from front as long as, or longer than the head, nearly straight to near the tip, 
or bow-shaped, without any notch; tarsus as long as, or longer than the middle toe, 
conspicuously scutellate; outer lateral toe a little the longer, not reaching the base of 
the middle claw; hind toe longer than lataral, its claw equal to its remaining portion; 
wings short, rounded, the fourth or fifth longest; the exposed portion of the first about 
half that of longest; tail longer than the wings, broad, more or less graduated. 
HARPORHYNCHUS RUFUS, — Cabanis. 
The Brown Thrush; Brown Thrasher. 
Turdus rufus, Linneus. Syst. Nat., I. (1766) 298. Wilson, Am. Orn., II. (1810) 
83. Aud. Orn. Biog., II. (1884) 102; V. (1889) 441. 
Orpheus rufus, Swainson. F. Bor. Am., II. (1831) 187. Nuttall, Man. I. (1832) 
828. ‘ 
DESCRIPTION. 
Fifth quill longest; the third, fourth, and sixth little shorter; second equal to 
ninth; exposed portion of the bill shorter than the head; outline of lower mandible 
straight; above light cinnamon-red, beneath pale rufous-white with longitudinal 
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1 This genus, together with the following, has been removed from its position in 
the Liotrichide, as given in vol. IX. Pac. R.R. Reports, and placed in the Turdide by 
Professor Baird, in his recent Review of the Birds of North America. 
2 See Appendix. 
