7-439: Allenia Margarops Oreoscoptes Ramphocinclus Toxostoma Thrashers are a New World group of passerine birds related to mockingbirds and New World catbirds . Like these, they are in the family Mimidae . There are 15 species in one large and 4 monotypic genera . These do not form a clade but are a phenetic assemblage. It is rather likely than not — though by no means robustly supported — that
14-470: A thrush . Adults of the nominate subspecies have a dark gray-brown head and upperparts with a reddish tinge on the rump. Their tail is a darker brownish black and its outer feathers have white tips. The folded wing shows a single white bar. Their chin and throat are whitish with brown streaks. The underparts are whitish and the chest and flanks have bold gray-brown markings that give the eponymous scaly appearance. The other subspecies differ mostly in size and
21-697: Is a species of bird in the family Mimidae . It is found throughout much of the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean Sea . The scaly-breasted thrasher was originally placed in genus Margarops with the pearly-eyed thrasher ( M. fuscatus ) but is now in the monotypic genus Allenia . It has five subspecies: The scaly-breasted thrasher is approximately 23 cm (9.1 in) long and weighs 53 to 98 g (1.9 to 3.5 oz) with an average weight of 67 g (2.4 oz). With its rather short and slightly decurved bill, this thrasher resembles
28-453: Is also found around human settlements. The scaly-breasted thrasher forages in trees; on different islands it hunts at different levels from low down to high in the canopy. It is omnivorous; its diet includes arthropods , fruits, and berries. It appears to eat a larger percentage of vegetable foods than other thrashers. The scaly-breasted thrasher breeds in May and June. It builds a cup nest in
35-414: Is probably quite close to the tremblers. (Hunt et al. 2001, Barber et al. 2004) Their common name describes the behaviour of these birds when searching for food on the ground: they use their long bills to "thrash" through dirt or dead leaves. All of these birds eat insects and several species also eat berries. Allenia Margarops fuscus The scaly-breasted thrasher ( Allenia fusca )
42-465: The sage thrasher is a basal lineage among a group also consisting of mockingbirds and Toxostoma thrashers. The Caribbean thrashers occupy varying positions in an assemblage consisting of them, the tremblers , and the New World catbirds . Here, the white-breasted thrasher appears to be quite basal though it is impossible to place it anywhere with certainty, whereas the pearly-eyed thrasher
49-491: The intensity of their upperparts' color. A. f. hypenema is the largest and is paler than the nominate. A. f. schwartzi is mid-sized and has more white on its tail. A. f. vincenti is the smallest and is darker overall than the nominate. A. f. atlantica compared to the nominate is more reddish brown above and has less white in the tail. The subspecies of scaly-breasted thrasher are found thus: The scaly-breasted thrasher primarily inhabits forest and semi-open woodland and
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