California Thrasher

“No spots anywhere; wings and tail without decided barring or tipping. Bill as long as the head or longer, bow-shaped, black. Wings very much shorter that the tail. Above, dark oily olive-brown, the wings and tail similar, but rather purer brown. Below, a paler shade of the color of the upper parts, the belly and crissum strongly rusty-brown, the throat definitely whitish in marked contrast, and not bordered by decided maxillary streaks. Cheeks and auriculars blackish-brown with sharp whitish shaft streaks.” Elliot Coues, 1884

Keywords

birds, ornithology, thrasher, North American birds, omnivorous birds, bird sketches, California Thrasher, Toxostoma redivivum, mimid, ground forager

Galleries

California, Birds: T-V

Source

Elliot Coues Key to North American Birds (Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 1884)

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