332 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



GENUS TOXOSTOMA WAGLER. 



Toxostoma WAGLER, Isis, XXIV, 1831, 528. Type, by monotypy, Toxos- 

 toma vetula WAGLER = Orpheus curvirostris SWAINSON. 



Tox6stoma rafum (LiNN^us). Brown Thrasher. [705.] 



Turdus rufus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 169. (Virginia or 

 Carolina.) 



RANGE. Eastern United States. Breeds mainly in Transition 

 and Austral zones from southern Alberta, southern Manitoba, north- 

 ern Michigan, southern Ontario, southern Quebec, and northern 

 Maine south to eastern Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and north- 

 ern Florida, and from base of the Rocky Mountains in Montana, 

 Wyoming, and Colorado eastward; winters from southeastern Mis- 

 souri and North Carolina to south central Texas, southern Florida, 

 and casually further north; accidental in Arizona and Europe. 



Toxostoma Iongir6stre (LAFRESNAYE). 



RANGE. Lower Rio Grande Valley and the Gulf coast of Texas 

 south through eastern Mexico. 



a. [Toxostoma longirostre longirostre. Extralimital.] 



b. Tozostoma longirostre sennetti (RIDGWAY). Bennett's Thrasher. [706.] 



Harporhynchus longiroslris sennetti RIDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 

 1888, 506. (Lomita, near Hidalgo, Texas.) 



RANGE. Lower Sonoran and upper Tropical zones from the Lower Rio 

 Grande Valley and Gulf coast of Texas (Corpus Christi) south to central 

 Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and San Luis Potosi ; occasionally north 

 to Galveston. 



Toxostoma curvirostre (SWAINSON). 



RANGE. Southern border of the United States and Mexico. 



a. Toxostoma curvirostre curvirostre (SWAINSON). Curve-billed Thrasher. 

 [707.] 



Orpheus curvirostris SWAINSON, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, May, 1827, 369. 

 ("Table land" of Mexico; probably near Temascaltepec.) 



