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Gray Thrasher
The gray thrasher (''Toxostoma cinereum'') is a medium-sized passerine bird belonging to the family Mimidae. It is endemic to the Baja California peninsula of Mexico. Taxonomy and systematics The gray thrasher has two subspecies, the nominate ''T. c. cinereum'' and ''T. c. mearnsi''. Description The gray thrasher is long. Four males weighed and a female . It is gray-brown above with cinnamon tones on the rump. Its underparts are white with arrow-shaped black spots. The outer tail feathers have white tips. Its eyes are golden yellow. The subspecies are similar, with ''T. c. mearnsi'' being somewhat darker overall.Soberanes-González, C. A., C. I. Rodríguez-Flores, M. d. C. Arizmendi, G. M. Kirwan, and T. S. Schulenberg (2020). Gray Thrasher (''Toxostoma cinereum''), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.grathr1.01 retrieved July 25, 2021 Distribution and habitat The gray t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Xantus De Vesey
John Xantus de Vesey a.k.a. de Csíktaplócza ( hu, Csíktaplóczai (Vese) Xántus János, 5 October 1825 – 13 December 1894) was a Hungary, Hungarian exile and zoologist. Xantus (the aristocratic title ''de Vesey'' was an affectation, of which he had several variations) was born Xántus János, in Csokonya, Somogy County (former), Somogy, Hungary. Trained as a lawyer, he served as an officer in the nationalist uprisings of 1848–1849 in the Hungarian Army. Captured and exiled to Prague, he was arrested again, and escaped to the United States via England in 1850. In the U.S. he pursued a variety of occupations, including bookseller, druggist, a teacher, and hospital steward in the United States Army, U.S. Army. In the Army he met Dr. William Alexander Hammond, a collector for the noted zoologist Spencer Fullerton Baird. Working under Hammond as an assistant surgeon, he soon developed an interest in natural history and became a gifted collector himself. In 1860 he was statione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
