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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Remsen,
J.V.
1975
Curve-billed Thrasher
Toxostoma curvirostre
Jan.2 Rocky Ford area, Crowley Co., Colo: I found on sparsely vegetated (cholla cactus + some bushes) slope about 1 mile w. of the junction of Hwys 96 x 167 about 500 yds n. of the highway - a consistent location for this bird. Two birds were later seen right along the highway on the south side around an old wagon in an isolated house's front yard.- one probably same bird as above. Eye- yellow-orange. Plumage- mostly Brown. Tawnee brown, paler below. Faint malar streak. Bill strongly decurved.
The ground had at least one inch of snow on it except on the south-facing hillsides. This is probably their northermost locality in the United States.
May 3 Carizzo + Cottonwood Creeks, Baca Co., Colo: 2 in a juniper-cholla rocky canyon situation.