Perching Birds Chiefly Dull Colored. 
742a. Coast Wren-tit (C. f. phwa). Similarto No. 
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 curvirostre). 
L. 11.2. 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 Meaico south 
over the Mexico tableland to Oaxaca. 
707a. Palmer Thrasher (7. c. palmert). Similar to 
No. 707, but wing-bars less evident; outer tail-feathers 
without white tips. 
Range.—"'Southern Arizona, from about fifty miles northwest of 
Pheenix, south to Guaymas, Sonora."’ (A. O. U.) 
708. Bendire Thrasher (Toxostoma bendiret). 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, terup, tirup, tirup. 
(Brown. ) 
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. mearnst). Differs 
from No. 7o9 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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