The Leconte Thrasher 
Taken on the Mohave Desert Photo by Wright M. Pierce 
HOW D’YE DO? 
IMMATURE LECONTE THRASHER 
to Benton; also irregularly and locally distributed in the Tulare basin; thus, colonies 
at Buena Vista Lake, Onyx, Bakersfield, McKittrick, and northwest of Tulare Lake 
between Huron and Arroyo Los Gatos. Casual near Julian, San Diego County. 
Authorities.—Cooper (Harporhynchus lecontii), Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., vol. ii., 
1861, p. 122 (Mohave R.); Stephens , Auk, vol. i., 1884, p. 355 (Colorado Desert; habits, 
etc.); Mearns , Auk, vol. iii., 1886, p. 299 (syn., hist., biog., etc.); Morcom, Bull. Ridgway 
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