40 NORTH AMERICAN BIlfDS. 



west. It first appears ns a bird of the valley of the I'io nmiide, and extends 

 from thence southward through Eastern IMexico to (.'ordova andOrizaba. In 

 Arizona it is replaced by H. patmcri, H. Icamtci, and H. crissfifis, in Cali- 

 fornia by H. )'afirini(s, and at ('a]ic St. Lucas by //. riiifrcus, while in the 

 Unitetl States east of the Rocky Mountains it is represented by its nearer 

 ally II. rufuti. 



IIahits. The eggs of this species are hardly distinguishable from those 

 of the couinidii Urown Tiirasher (//. m/Ks), of the Atlantic States. The 

 color of their ground is a greenish-white, which is thickly, and usually coni- 

 jiletely, covered witli line markings of a yellowish-brown. They have an 

 avenige length of l.l;3 inches, by .79 in breadth. So far as I have had an 

 opportunity of observing, they do not vary from thesi; measurements more 

 than two per cent in length or one per cent in bi'cadth. Their nests are 

 usually a mere platform of small sticks or coarse stems, with little or no 

 dei)res.sion or rim, and are jilaced in low bushes, usually above the u]iper 

 branches. 



In regard to the distinctive habits of this species I have no information. 



Harporhynchus cinereus, X.vmus. 



CAPE ST. LUCAS THRASHDB. 



Ifiiriinrliiiiirliii^ riiinriis, X.VSH s, Tr. \. N. Sc. l.Si'iil, 2!tS. — Haiimi, I1>., '.Wi ; licvicw, Iti. 

 - Sil,.\Ti;i!, Catal. IStil, 8, im. 41). — Ki.mot, Illiist., i. i)l. i. — CiptiPKU, Birds Cal. 1. 

 1!). 



Sp. Cn.Mi. Bill as Idiii; ns llic lioail ; all the lateral outliiios fronlly (Icciirvcd tVoiii tlio 

 l)as('. T?risll('s not very c()iis|iicii(ms, Imt reacliiiiu' t<> llif nostrils, ^Villf,'s coiisiiji'ialily 

 .slidrtcr tliaii the tail, iiiildi roinidcil. First jiriiiiary lirnad. nearly hall" the leiifrlii of llio 

 se<'(inil ; llie third to the seventh <|Mills nearly ei|ual, their tips Ibrniinf; the onllino of a 



frentk' enrve : the s )nd (piill shorter than the ninth. Tail eonsiileraldy (,'raduatod, the 



lateral fealliers more than an inch the .shortei'. Lejis stont : tarsi lon;;cr than middle toe, 

 dislini'tly sentellate, with seven scales. 



Ahovo a.-hy lirown. with perhaps a tinjre (if rusty on the rnni]); henealh liilvons-whili', 

 more lidvoiis on the llaid\s. inside of win;:, and erissnm. Henealh. exeepi <'hin, (hroat, 

 and I'rom nnddle of alidomen to erissnm. with \v<'ll-delined V-shaped spots of daik lirown 

 at ihe ends of the featl er.>!, largest, across the hreasi. Loral reijion lioarv. Wings with 

 two mnrow whitish hands across Ihe tips of greater and midille coverts; the ipiills edged 

 externally with |),iler. Outer three tail-leathers with a rather ohsolele wlnle patch ii: the 

 end of inner weli. and across the lips of the onler. 



Spring specimens are of rather purer white henealh. with the .spots mine clislinct than 

 ns (le,serih(Ml. 



Length of l'J,!l(!() (skin). 10.00 : wing, 4.10; tail. -t.dr. ; (irst primary, 1,<!0; .s,.eond, 

 'J..")0 ; liill from gape, 1.40, IVoiii ahove, 1.1.'), from nostril, .1)0; tarsns, l.'Jfi; middli! toe 

 and ci.'iw, l.l'J: claw alone, ..'O. 



II.Mi. Cape St. Lneas, Lower ('alilornia. 



Tliis s]rcfics is curiously similar in cdldiiition to ^nvwoyi/cs' ininitmiiii^, from 

 which its much larger size, much longer and deciirved bill, and the gradu- 



