Brewster on a Collection of Arizona Birds. 
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550, $ ad.. Camp Lowell, June 20. Length, 10.20; extent, 14.10; wing, 
4.40; tail, 5.20. “Iris golden brown; bill and legs black.” 
6. Harporhynchus bendirei Cones. Bendire’s Thrasher. 
— Mr. Stephens’ notes contain few references to this species, and 
judging from the limited number of specimens which he ob- 
tained, it must be less abundant in Arizona than either H. 
crissalis or H. curvirostris palmeri , a status which is in 
strict accordance with Mr. Henshaw’s experience. About half 
of the skins collected during the past season are labeled either 
Camp Lowell or Tucson, while the remainder were taken at 
various points directly north or south of the latter place, and 
not over twenty-five miles distant in either direction. Outside 
the limits of this desert region the bird was not anywhere 
met with, although it was common at Phoenix in February, 1880. 
A nest taken June 16 near Tucson, and identified by the cap- 
ture of one of the parent birds, was placed in a “cat-claw 
mesquite” at a height of about five feet from the ground. It is 
a deeply-hollowed, smoothly-lined structure, composed of fine 
grasses and soft, hemp-like vegetable fibres, which are protected 
externally, in a manner common to the nests of nearly all Thrash- 
ers, by a bristling array of interlaced twigs and thornv sticks. The 
interior cup measures two inches in depth by three in width. 
The two eggs which it contained, like those described by Dr. 
Coues, are readily separable from eggs of H. pahneri by their 
grayish-white instead of dull green ground-color. They are 
faintly marked with reddish-brown and lavender, the spots being 
confined chiefly to the larger ends, where many of them assume 
the character of blotches or dashes of color. These eggs 
measure respectively i.ozX-79 -96X-79* Tim greatest 
number of eggs found in any of the several nests examined by 
Mr. Stephens - was three, but two seemed to be the usual com- 
plement. 
Of the birds before me four are in first plumage, a stage which, if I am 
not mistaken, has never been previously examined. The first of these 
(No. 426, twenty-five miles south of Tucson, May 22) was unable to fly, 
and was taken from the nest. It differs from the adult in the following- 
particulars ; The upper parts, with nearly the same ground-color, have a 
tinge of reddish-brown which, on the rump, wing-coverts, and tips and 
outer webs of the primaries and secondaries, shades into brownish- 
chestnut. The sprouting rectrices are also tipped with the same color. 
The under parts generally are warm fulvous, which becomes nearly pure 
cinnamon on the sides and crissum, and along the median- line pales to 
