THE AUK: 



A Q^UARTERLY JOURNAL OF 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



VOL. III. July, 1886. no. 3. 



SOME BIRDS OF ARIZONA. 



BY EDGAR A. MEARNS. 



(Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A.) 



Genus Harporhynchus Cabanis. , 



Red-vented Thrasher. Harporhynchus crissalis. 

 Leconte's Thrasher. Harporhynchus lecontei. 

 Palmer's Thrasher. Harporhynchus curvirostris pal- 

 meri. 



Bendire's Thrasher. Harporhynchus bendirei. 



Professor Coues has already pointed out (Birds of the Colo- 

 rado Valley, p. 61), the especial interest attaching to the genus 

 Harporhynchus^ as represented in this general region. This 

 genus, he states, "reaches its highest development in the Colorado 

 Basin, where nearly all the known species occur, some of them in 

 abundance ; while several of them are entirely confined, so far as 

 we now know, to this region. As much can be said of no other 

 genus. Harporhynchus is, in fact, the leading feature of the Col- 

 orado avifauna, whether we consider the relative number of spe- 

 cies there represented, or the extremely local distribution of some 

 of them. The fringilline genus Pipilo offers much the same case ; 

 and there is a further singular parallelism between the two. Both 



