Perching Birds Chiefly Dull Colored 



742a. Coast Wren-tit {C.f.pkisa). SimilartoNo. 

 742, but much browner abuve and deeper more pink 

 below; sides as dark as back. 



Range.— Pacific CoaKt fmm Monterey County, California, north to 

 southern Oregon. 



707. Curve-billed Thrasher [Toxosttma curvifostrn). 

 L. 11.2. y^ds. Above brownish gray; below mottled 

 with brownish gray; lower beliy 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 ThraBher (7", e. palmeri). Similar to 

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

 without whMz tips. 



Ran|;e. — "Southern Arliona, from about fiftv miles northwest of 

 Ph(enlx. south to Uuaymas, i^nora." (A. O. U.) 



708. Bendire Thrasher {Joxostoma bendirei). L. 

 10.2. ^ds. 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.) 



Ran (re.— Desert regions of southern Afiioan SOUth Into Sonora, 

 Mexico; west rarely to southeastern California; resident except at 

 extreme northern limit of its range. 



709. St. LuCas .Thraaher (Toxostoma cimream). 

 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 (T. c. m^arnsi). 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 LowerCaliromla. south to about Lat 30° jo'. 



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