. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . reddish brown, this sometimes becoming the prevailing color. Food. — Beetles, grasshoppers, caterpillars, bugs, and spiders; smallfruits and seeds. The eastern brown thrasher is a fairly common resident of the Colo-rado plains, breeding as high as 7500 feet. 706. Toxostoma longirostre sennetti (Ridgw.). Sennett parts golden brown, with two whitish wing bars ; under parts white, breast and sides with black wedge-shaped or tear-shaped marks; billcu
. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . reddish brown, this sometimes becoming the prevailing color. Food. — Beetles, grasshoppers, caterpillars, bugs, and spiders; smallfruits and seeds. The eastern brown thrasher is a fairly common resident of the Colo-rado plains, breeding as high as 7500 feet. 706. Toxostoma longirostre sennetti (Ridgw.). Sennett parts golden brown, with two whitish wing bars ; under parts white, breast and sides with black wedge-shaped or tear-shaped marks; billcurved from base. Length: ,- wing , tail ,^^- ^*^^- bill Distribution. — Breeds in Lower Sonoran zone in southern Texas fromCorpus Christi and Laredo south to northeastern Mexico. Nest. — In bushes or thickets, made of sticks, vines, and sometimesstraws, lined with rootlets. JEggs : 3 or 4, whitish to greenish, closelydotted with reddish brown, often most heavily around larger — Insects and larvae, and berries. The Sennett thrasher occurs with curvirostre in southern Texas,. WRENS, THRASHERS, ETC. 439 but is much less common, only a few of the brown birds being seen,while the pale, clay-colored curve-bill ranks as one of the commonestbrush birds. 707. Toxostoma curvirostre (Swains.). Curve-billed Thkasher. Adults. — Upper parts light brownish gray ; wings with two narrow white bars; tail blackish, four pairs of outer feathers ^^ strikingly tipped with white; throat white; breast and sides thickly spotted and clouded with gray ; flanks huffy. Young: similar, ^^S- ^^■^■ but wing coverts and rump tinged with fulvous, and markings on breast narrower and darker. Length : , wing , tail , exposed eulmen Distribution. — Lower Sonoran zone from New Mexico and western Texasto Oaxaca, Mexico. Nest. — In cactus and trees, made of thorny twigs lined with a fewgrasses. Eggs : 3 or 4, col
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