HARPORHYNCQHUS. 543 
brownish gray spot; lores dusky, bordered above by a very indistinct pale brown 
stripe on each side of forehead; lower parts plain dull brownish white, the flanks 
indistinctly streaked with dark brownish, and malar region indistinctly barred 
with same; bill and feet brownish black; length about 9.50-10.00, wing 4.35-4.40, 
tail 5.00-5.10, exposed culmen .80, tarsus 1.40-1.50, middle toe .90. Hab. Socorro 
Island, western Mexico. 
M. graysoni (BarrD). Socorro Thrasher.! 
Genus HARPORHYNCHUS Cazants. (Page 539, pl. CXX., figs. 3, 5.) 
Species. 
(West very bulky, composed of dried twigs, rootlets, ete. (the material varying 
with the locality or according to the species), placed in small, usually thorny, trees, 
vines, or bushes. ygs very variable in coloration, but usually speckled.) 
a’, Tarsus longer than exposed culmen; gonys much shorter than middle toe, with- 
out claw; tail exceeding wing by not more than length of tarsus; lower 
parts more or less distinctly spotted or streaked (these markings sometimes 
obsolete in H. bendirei and H. palmeri). (Subgenus Methriopterus REIcu.) 
6’, Above reddish. brown; both rows of wing-coverts distinctly tipped with 
white, this preceded by a dusky bar; markings on lower parts linear, 
wedge-shaped, or tear-shaped. 
c. Culmen curved for the terminal half only, and not lopger than middle 
toe without claw; gonys perfectly straight; abdve bright tawny 
brown or rusty cinnamon ; beneath buffy white, or pale buff, the 
markings on sides of breast usually brownish; length about 10.50- 
12.00, wing 4.10-4.60 (4.31), tail 5.00-5.75 (5.32), exposed culmen 
-90-1.10 (.99), tarsus 1.28-1.40 (1.36). Eggs 1.06 x .78, greenish 
white, very pale greenish, pale buffy, etc., minutely speckled or 
sprinkled with reddish brown (this sometimes the prevailing color). 
Hab. Eastern United States, west to base of Rocky Mountains, 
north to southern Maine, Ontario, and Manitoba; winters in more 
southern States (north to about 37°). 
705. H. rufus (Linn.). Brown Thrasher, 
ec, Culmen decidedly curved from the base, and decidedly longer than 
middle toe, with claw; gonys appreciably concave; above dull 
umber-brown, somewhat more rusty on wings and tail; beneath 
pure white, the markings on sides of breast (and elsewhere) deep 
black. 
d'. Wing 3.80, or more, tail 4.80, or more; basal portion of lower 
mandible light horn-color, or otherwise pale-colored; length 
about 10.50-12.00, wing 3.80-4.20, tail 4.80-5.45, culmen 1.05- 
1 Harporhynchus graysoni “ Barrp, MS.,” Lawr., Aun. Lye. N. Y. x. 1871, 1. 
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