Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)

Brown-backed Mockingbird (Mimus dorsalis) - HBW 10, p. 486

French: Moqueur à dos brun German: Braunrücken-Spottdrossel Spanish: Sinsonte Castaño

Taxonomy: Or[pheus] dorsalis d’Orbigny and Lafresnaye, 1837, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Thought most closely related to, and perhaps forming a superspecies with, M. triurus. Monotypic.

Distribution: W & S Bolivia (S from La Paz) and NW Argentina (S to Tucumán).