Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)
Crissal Thrasher (Toxostoma crissale) - HBW 10, p. 495
French: Moqueur cul-roux
German: Rotsteiß-Spottdrossel
Spanish: Cuitlacoche Culirrojo
Taxonomy: Toxostoma crissalis Henry, 1858, New Mexico, USA.
Specific name previously given as dorsale, but that apparently a printer’s error in original description; now suppressed in favour of present name, which was the one intended by describer. Forms a superspecies with T. redivivum, possibly also including T. lecontei. Races intergrade. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- coloradense van Rossem, 1946 - extreme SW USA (lower R Colorado in SE California and SW Arizona) S to NW Mexico (extreme NE Baja California, NW Sonora).
- crissale Henry, 1858 - SW USA (SW Utah S to SE California and S Arizona, also New Mexico and W Texas) S to NC Mexico (S to WC Coahuila).
- trinitatis Grinnell, 1927 - Valle de Trindad (NE Baja California) in NW Mexico.
- dumosum R. T. Moore, 1941 - C Mexico (E Durango and S Coahuila S to Hidalgo).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Singing from the top of a Yucca Locality White Sands National Monument, Otero County, Colorado, USA (United States) (ssp crissale)
Joe Angseesing 1 May 2010 1 year ago 40 sec 3.4
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Crissal Thrasher, Sedona, Arizona USA
Locality Arizona, USA (United States)
Ron Flemal 1 February 2009 2 years ago 3.5
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Calls given from a dense thicket at dusk. Locality Verde River, Arizona, USA (United States)
Scott Olmstead 14 December 2009 2 years ago 4
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