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BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 
In habits and song, the Sage Thrasher seems to combine the 
characters of its near relatives, the Mockingbirds and Thrashers, and it 
might well be called the Mockingbird of the Sagebrush. On the 
sagebrush plain, Mr. Henshaw tells us, “from the top of some low 
bush, its beautiful, low, warbling song comes, often the only sound 
Triangles mark breeding and breeding season records 
which breaks the quiet of the desolate plain” (1875, p. 150). It sings 
late in the fall. Several seen by Mr. Bailey at Deming the last of 
November were singing in an undertone, as he had previously heard 
them in the Wasatch Mountains, when over a foot of snow lay on the 
ground. 
In the region of Mesilla Park, Professor Merrill writes, “the Sage 
Thrasher breeds mainly in the foothills and the mountain region from 
