Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)

Long-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma longirostre) - HBW 10, p. 492

French: Moqueur à long bec German: Langschnabel-Spottdrossel Spanish: Cuitlacoche Piquilargo

Taxonomy: [Orpheus] longirostris Lafresnaye, 1838, Mexico.
Forms a superspecies with T. rufum and T. guttatum, and the three sometimes considered conspecific. Race sennetti intergrades with nominate in S Tamaulipas (E Mexico). Two subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • sennetti (Ridgway, 1888) - S USA (SC Texas) and NE Mexico (S to E San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas).
  • longirostre (Lafresnaye, 1838) - E Mexico (Querétaro, S Tamaulipas and Veracruz S to Puebla).

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