. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. BIRDS OF AMERICA in all, the Brown Thrasher is a useful bird, and probably does as good work in its secluded. '. iv. joD (^^ouriesy of Outing Pub. Co MALE BROWN THRASHER Shielding young from the hot sun retreats as it would about the garden, for the swamps and groves are no doubt the breeding grounds of many insects that migrate thence to attack the crops of the farmer. Sennett's Thrasher (Toxostorna longirostre sennctti) is similar to the Brown Thrasher, but larger, with the brown of the upper parts less red and more golden and the under parts whit
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. BIRDS OF AMERICA in all, the Brown Thrasher is a useful bird, and probably does as good work in its secluded. '. iv. joD (^^ouriesy of Outing Pub. Co MALE BROWN THRASHER Shielding young from the hot sun retreats as it would about the garden, for the swamps and groves are no doubt the breeding grounds of many insects that migrate thence to attack the crops of the farmer. Sennett's Thrasher (Toxostorna longirostre sennctti) is similar to the Brown Thrasher, but larger, with the brown of the upper parts less red and more golden and the under parts whiter. It is a bird of northeastern Mexico, the Rio Grande valley, and the Gulf coast district of Texas. In the same part of the United States, but dis- tributed over more territory in Mexico, is the Curve-billed Thrasher {Toxostorna curvirostrc ciirvirostrc). His upper parts are plain brown- ish gray (clay-color), tail, blackish with four feathers on each side abruptly tipped with white ; his under parts are buffy-white, deepening into pale brownish-buff on the flanks and lower regions and with the chest, breast, and upper abdomen spotted with pale brownish-gray. BENDIRE'S THRASHER Toxostorna bendirei (Coues) General Description.— Length, g]% inches. Upper parts, grayish-brown; under parts, buffy-white with streaks of dark. Bill, about length of head, curved downward at the end ; wnigs, rather short and rounded; tail, decidedly longer than wing and rounded. Color.— Above, plain light yrayish-brozvn, the rump and upper tail-coverts, paler, the wings and tail, slightly darker; middle and greater wing-coverts, indistinctly tipped with paler, and wing quills narrowly edged with the same; inner web of exterior tail-feathers rather broadly tipped with dull white, the outer web much more narrowly tipped with the same — the remaining tail-feathers (except middle pair) similarly tipped witli whitish, but to a less extent, gradually disappearing toward middle feathers; sides of head,
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