The Fourth Record of the Brown Thrasher in California
The Fourth Record of the Brown Thrasher in California.
Last March a neighbor told me that she had several times observed a bird at her bird bath which she believed to be an eastern Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum). On April 17, 1940, the bird entered my trap, and was given band number 39-253372. It was not observed in the neighborhood after that date.
So far as I can ascertain, there have been but three previous published records of Toxosto~ rzrfum in California: one seen by Dr. J. G. Cooper at Clear Lake in September, 1870 (Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, A History of North American Birds, 3, 1874:500), which van Rossem (Condor, 35, 1933: 161-162) thinks probably is a valid record; one photographed in Altadena in 1933 by van Rossem (Zoc. cit.) ; and another handed by Mr. C. V. Duff in Hollywood in January, 1939 (Duff, Condor, 41, 1939:121).
Ethel C. Ayer
Pomoma, California, October 18, 1940
