Toxostoma Lecontei Bird

English Name:  LeConte's Thrasher
Latin Name:  Toxostoma lecontei
Protonym:  Toxostoma Le Contei Ann.Lyc.Nat.Hist.N.Y. 5(1852) p.121
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Mimidae / Toxostoma
Taxonomy Code:  lecthr
Type Locality:  in California, near the junction of the Gila and Colorado rivers = Fort Yuma, California.
Author:  Lawrence
Publish Year:  1851
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TOXOSTOMA
(Mimidae; Ϯ Curve-billed Thrasher T. curvirostre) Gr. τοξον toxon   bow, arch; στομα stoma, στοματος stomatos  mouth; "Genus Toxostoma, Bogenschnabel. (Genus novum.)   54. Toxostoma Vetula (species nova).  Notaeo toto e fuliginoso-cinereo, exclusa alae flexura albida et macula in apice rectricum quaternarum, externarum candida (versus rectrices interiores sensim minore); gastraeo toto albido, fusco-cinereo nubilo; rostro arcuato nigro. Adult.   Chietotottotl Hernand. Thes. p. 31. cap. 80." (Wagler 1831); "Toxostoma Wagler, 1831, Isis von Oken, 24, p. 528. Type, by monotypy, Toxostoma vetula Wagler = Orpheus curvirostris Swainson." (Davis & Miller in Peters 1960, IX, 449).
Var. Toxastoma, Taxostoma.
Synon. Antimimus, Harpes, Harporhynchus, Methriopterus.

lecontei / leconteii / lecontii
● Lt.-Col. Dr John Lawrence LeConte (1825-1883) US Army surgeon, entomologist, biologist, collector in North America (Ammodramus, Ispidina, Toxostoma).
● Prof. Dr Joseph LeConte (1823-1901) US geologist, conservationist (syn. Dryobates pubescens).

SUBSPECIES

LeConte's Thrasher (LeConte's)
Latin Name: Toxostoma lecontei lecontei/macmillanorum
TOXOSTOMA
(Mimidae; Ϯ Curve-billed Thrasher T. curvirostre) Gr. τοξον toxon   bow, arch; στομα stoma, στοματος stomatos  mouth; "Genus Toxostoma, Bogenschnabel. (Genus novum.)   54. Toxostoma Vetula (species nova).  Notaeo toto e fuliginoso-cinereo, exclusa alae flexura albida et macula in apice rectricum quaternarum, externarum candida (versus rectrices interiores sensim minore); gastraeo toto albido, fusco-cinereo nubilo; rostro arcuato nigro. Adult.   Chietotottotl Hernand. Thes. p. 31. cap. 80." (Wagler 1831); "Toxostoma Wagler, 1831, Isis von Oken, 24, p. 528. Type, by monotypy, Toxostoma vetula Wagler = Orpheus curvirostris Swainson." (Davis & Miller in Peters 1960, IX, 449).
Var. Toxastoma, Taxostoma.
Synon. Antimimus, Harpes, Harporhynchus, Methriopterus.

LeConte's Thrasher (Vizcaino)
Latin Name: Toxostoma lecontei arenicola
arenicola
L. arena (properly harena)  desert; -cola  dweller  < colere  to inhabit.