Perching Birds Chiefly Dull Colored 



709. 



742a. Coast Wren-tit (C.f.phaa). SimilartoNo. 

 742, but much browner above and deeper more pink 

 below; sides as dark as back. 



Range. Pacific Coast from Monterey County, California, north to 

 southern Oregon. 



707. Curve-billed Thrasher ( Toxostoma curvirostri). 

 L. ii.2. Ads. Above brownish gray; below mottled 

 with brownish gray; lower belly buffy; four outer pairs 

 of tail-feathers tipped with white; two narrow white 

 wing-bars. Notes. Call, a sharp, whit-whit; one of the 

 most silent of song Thrushes. (Merrill.) Song, re- 

 markably melodious and attractive. (Couch. ; 



Range. Mexican boundary region of Texas and New Mexico south 

 Over the Mexico tableland to Oaxaca. 



707a. Palmer Thrasher (T. c. palmeri). Similar to 

 No. 707, but wing-bars less evident; outer tail-feathers 

 without white tips. 



Range. "Southern Arizona, from about fifty miles northwest of 

 Phoenix, south to Guaymas, Sonora." (A. O. U.) 



708. Bendire Thrasher (Toxostoma bendiref). L. 

 10.2. Ads. Above brownish ashy; below soiled 

 whitish washed with buffy and lightly spotted with 

 dusky, chiefly on breast; outer tail-feathers narrowly 

 tipped with whitish. Notes. Call, tirup, tirup, tirup. 

 CBrown.) 



Range. Desert regions of southern Arizona south into Sonora, 

 Mexico; west rarely to southeastern California; resident except at 

 extreme northern limit of its range. 



709. St. Lucas Thrasher (Toxostoma cinereum). 

 L. 10. Ads. Above grayish brown; below white with 

 numerous wedge-shaped spots; outer tail-feathers 

 tipped with white. 



Range. Southern Lower California. 



709a. Mearns Thrasher (7. c. mearnsi). Differs 

 from No. 709 in much darker upperparts, more rusty 

 flanks and crissum, much larger and more intensely 

 black spots on lower parts and less curved bill. (An- 

 thony.) 



Range. Northern Lower California, south to about Lat. 30 30 '. 



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