Above ashy drab, tail darker and more brownish; wing bands inconspicuous, and tail-feathers hardly diluted at tips. Beneath, the ochraceous covers the abdomen, and the throat inclines to the same. No “bridle.” Cheeks and ear-coverts blackish, with conspicuous shaft-streaks of white; wing, 4.30; tail, 5.60; bill, 1.40, stout, very much bowed,—the arch regular; tarsus, 1.55; middle toe, 1.00 (3,932 ♂, California). _Hab._ Coast region of California var. … _redivivus_. 6. H. crissalis. Anal region and lower tail-coverts deep chestnut. Above, brownish-ashy with a slight purplish cast, tail not darker; no trace of wing bands; tail-feathers diluted, and tinged with rusty at tips. Beneath, of a uniform, paler tint than the upper plumage, not lighter medially; throat white, with a conspicuous “bridle”; from this up to the eye whitish, with transversely angular bars of dusky; wing, 4.00; tail, 6.50; bill, 1.25, very slender, bowed from the middle; tarsus, 1.30; middle toe, .90 (11,533 ♂ Fort Yuma). _Hab._ Region of Gila River to Rocky Mountains; north to Southern Utah (St. George, breeding; Dr. Palmer). [Illustration: PLATE III. 1. Harporhynchus rufus, _Caban._ Penn., 2261. 2. “ longirostris, _Caban._ Texas, 4016. 3. “ curvirostris, _Caban._ Texas, 7200. 4. Mimus polyglottus, _Boie_. Penn., 12445. 5. Galeoscoptes carolinensis, _Caban._ Rocky Mts., 38425. 6. Oreoscoptes montanus, _Baird_. Nevada, 53424.] Harporhynchus rufus, CABANIS. BROWN THRASHER. _Turdus rufus_, LINN. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, 169, based on CATESBY, tab. 19.—IB. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 293.—GÄTKE, Naumannia, 1858, 424 (Heligoland, Oct. 1837). _Harporhynchus rufus_, CAB. Mus. Hein. 1850, 82.—BAIRD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 353.—IB. Rev. Am. Birds, 44.—SCLATER, P. Z. S. 1859, 340.—IB. Catal. 1861, 8, no. 48.—SAMUELS, 163. _Mimus rufus_, PR. MAX. Cab. Jour. 1858, 180. Figures: VIEILLOT, Ois. Am. Sept. II, pl. lix.—WILSON, Am. Orn. II, pl. xiv.—AUD. Orn. Biog. pl. cxvi. SP. CHAR. Exposed portion of the bill shorter than the head. Outline of lower mandible straight. Above light cinnamon-red; beneath pale rufous-white with longitudinal streaks of dark brown, excepting on the chin, throat, middle of the belly, and under tail-coverts. These spots anteriorly are reddish-brown in their terminal portion. The inner surface of the wing and the inner edges of the primaries are cinnamon; the concealed portion of the quills otherwise is dark brown. The median and greater wing-coverts become blackish-brown towards the end, followed by white, producing two conspicuous bands. The tail-feathers are all rufous, the external ones obscurely tipped with whitish; the shafts of the same color with the vanes. Length, 11.15; wing, 4.15; tail, 5.20; tarsus, 1.30.