In the morning of 30 May 1978 I found an Aztec Thrush (Ridgwayia pinicola) at 1700 m feeding on a wet dirt road at the bottom of Huachuca Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona. My field notes describe the bird thus:
“Sooty brown head, back, upper breast, and wings. Belly and lower breast white. Breast has dark spots clustered along the cline between the brown hood and white breast. Face with a hint of light malar streak and definite light stripe above the eye. Wings with white spots in primaries and secondaries. Tail short and dark with white spots at tip and white oval spots at the upper base next the rump. A black vertical patch from the legs up to the side of the rump under the wings. Beak dark, legs and feet pink.”