332 CHECK-LIST OF NOBTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus TOXOSTOMA Wagler. 



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

 toma vetula Waqlbk = Orpheus curvirostris Swainson. 



Tox6stoma rflfum (Linn^us). Brown Thrasher. [705.] 



Turdus rufus Linn^us, 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 longirostre (Lafbesnaye). 



Range. — Lower Rio Grande Valley and the Gulf coast of Texas 

 south through eastern Mexico. 



a. [Toxostoma longirostre longirostre. Extralimital.] 



b. Toxostoma longirostre s€nnetti (Ridgwat). Sennett's Thrasher. [706.] 



Harporhynchus longirostris 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, TamauHpas, Coahuila, and San Luis Potosi; occasionally north 

 to Galveston. 



Toxostoma curvir6stre (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.) 



