. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology, an outline of the structure and classification of birds, and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . x., southward inTamaulipas and Nuevo Leon. H. longirostris (Lafr.) of Bd., B. N. A. 1858, p. 352; longirostris, Coues, Key, 1872, p. 72, 1884-87, p. 251 ; H. longirostris s
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology, an outline of the structure and classification of birds, and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . x., southward inTamaulipas and Nuevo Leon. H. longirostris (Lafr.) of Bd., B. N. A. 1858, p. 352; longirostris, Coues, Key, 1872, p. 72, 1884-87, p. 251 ; H. longirostris sennettiRiDGW., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, Aug. 1888, p. 506; Coues, Key, 4th ed., 1890, p. curvirostris. (Lat. ciirvus, curved, and rostris, bow-billed.) Curve-billed Thrasher.^ 9 • Above, uniform ashy-gray (exactly the color of a Mockingbird) ; wings and taildarker and purer brown. Below, dull tiiiirod with ochraceous, especially on flanks and crissum, marked with roundedspots of the color of the back, mostnumerous and blended on the quite white, immaculate,without maxillary stripes; lowerbelly and crissum mostly free fromspots. No decided markings on sideof head. Ends of greater and me-dian wing-coverts white, formingtwo decided cross-bars: tail-feathersdistinctly tipped with white. BillLength of ^ about ; wing ; tail averaging rather smaller. Mexico,. little too thick. Fig. 148. — Bow-billed Thrasher, uat.(Ad. nat. del. E. C.) black, curved, stout; feet dark ; bill ; tarsus ; middle toe and claw the U. S. border of Texas and New Mexico. H. c. palmeri. (To Edw. Palmer. Fig. 148.) Bow billed Thrasher. Above, grayish-brown, nearly uniform ; wing-coverts and quills with slight whitish edging ; edge of wing itself — : THRASHERS. 287
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