California Thrasher

SCI Name:  Toxostoma redivivum
Protonym:  Harpes rediviva Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 2 p.264
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Mimidae / Toxostoma
Taxonomy Code:  calthr
Type Locality:  near Monterey, in Upper California.
Author:  Gambel
Publish Year:  1845
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.

rediviva / redivivum
L. redivivum renovated, reinstated < redire to return.
● “This curious bird was first seen by the naturalists in La Pérouse’s expedition, as he tells us, who considered it a Promerops ...No further account of this bird (as far as I can learn) has been given since the time of La Pérouse until now” (Gambel 1845) (Toxostoma).

SUBSPECIES

California Thrasher (sonomae)
SCI Name: Toxostoma redivivum sonomae
sonomae
Sonoma County, California, USA.

California Thrasher (redivivum)
SCI Name: Toxostoma redivivum redivivum
rediviva / redivivum
L. redivivum renovated, reinstated < redire to return.
● “This curious bird was first seen by the naturalists in La Pérouse’s expedition, as he tells us, who considered it a Promerops ...No further account of this bird (as far as I can learn) has been given since the time of La Pérouse until now” (Gambel 1845) (Toxostoma).