2Q2 Mearns 071 the Birds of Arizona. [ J"'y 



H. crissalis and H. rediviv2is lecontei are remarkable for 

 their plain, unspotted plumage ; while the former is unique in the 

 genus in producing immaculate eggs. 



H. crissalis is an inhabitant of wooded hillsides, rugged 

 canons, and the borders of streams at intermediate altitudes ; but 

 the other species are found in low, desert plains, spending much 

 time amone the cactuses. 



Harporhynchus crissalis Henry. Red-vented Thrasher. 



Toxostoma crissalis Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. X, May, 1S5S, 117 ("New 

 Mexico"). 



Harporhynchus crissalis Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, pp. 351, 923; ed. of 

 i860, pi. 82 (Mimberes to Rio Grande, N. M., Henry; Fort Yuma, Cal., 

 Ives).— Henry, Pr. Phil. Acad. XI, 1859, p. 107.— Sol. P. Z. S. 1859, P- 

 339 (critical). — Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, pp. 47,352 ("Region of 

 the Gila River, to Rocky Mts.").— Coues, Proc. Phila. Acad. XVIII, 1866, 

 p. 65 (Arizona). — Cooper, Am. Nat. Ill, 1869, p. 473; ib. Birds Cal. I, 

 1870, p. 18, fig. — CouES, Key, 1S72, p. 75 ("Valley of the Rio Grande and 

 Colorado") ; ih. Am. Nat. VI, 1872, p. 370 (descr. nest and eggs) ; VII, 

 1873, p. 328, fig. 67 —Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XVI, May 21, 

 1873 (descr. eggs, taken in Arizona, by Capt. Charles Bendire). — Bd. Br. 

 & RiDGW. N. Am. Birds, I, i874,p. 47; III, 1874, p. 500 ("Region of the 

 Gila River, to Rocky Mountains; Southern Utah"). — Yarrow & Hensh. 

 Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, p. 6. — Hensh. Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, p. 40 (Saint 

 George, Utah), p. 97 (Arizona); //;. List Birds Arizona, 1875, P- I54» ^'^• 

 Zool. Expl. W. 100 Merid. 1876, p. 158 (Arizona).— CouES, Birds Col. Val. 

 1878, p. 73, fig. 13. — Stephens, Bull. N. O. C. Ill, April, 1878, p. 93 

 (Gila River in New Mexico, and in Arizona). — Ridgw. Catal. Birds N. 

 Am.<Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 1S80, p. 167.— Brewst. Bull. N. O. C. 

 VI, 1881, p. 72; VII. 1882, pp. 69, 74.— CouES, Check List N. Am. Birds, 

 1882, p. 26. 



Harforhynchus crissalcs Baird, Ives's Rep. Colo. Riv. pt. V, 1S61, p. 6. 



Red-vented Thrasher; Henry's Thrush; Crissal Thrasher, Authors. 



Habitat. — New Mexico, Arizona, Southern Utah, Nevada and Califor- 

 nia in the Colorado Valley, and probably extending southward into Sonora, 

 Mexico; absent from such portions of this region as are over 5000 feet in 

 altitude. 



Description.^ — Adults in breeding dress (Nos. 4499,9 ^d., February 18, 

 1886, and 4502, J' ad., February 20, 18S6, Fort Verde, Arizona; E. A. M.), 

 Above nearly uniform ashy-brown; below a paler shade of the same 

 but clearer ashy ; under tail-coverts and crissum chestnut-rufous, this color 



