Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)

Socorro Mockingbird (Mimodes graysoni) - HBW 10, p. 491

French: Moqueur de Socorro German: Socorrospottdrossel Spanish: Sinsonte de Socorro
Other common names: Socorro Thrasher

Taxonomy: Harporhynchus graysoni Lawrence, 1871, Socorro Island, Mexico.
Monotypic genus, presumed derived from Mimus. Recent genetic analysis suggests that it belongs in a clade that contains four Mimus species (M. polyglottos, M. gilvus, M. gundlachii, M. saturninus) and that it should be placed in that genus. Monotypic.

Distribution: Socorro I, in Revillagigedo Archipelago, 600 km W of mainland Mexico.