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Example sentences for "backed thrush"

  • A little later one of my friends found our first olive-backed thrush's nest, lined with porcupine-hair and black rootlets, and containing blue eggs blotched with brown.

  • The olive-backed thrush has a hurried unrestful song, a combination of the notes of the wood thrush and the veery.

  • As we crossed the marsh, I heard the song of the olive-backed thrush, which sounds to me like a cross between the notes of the wood thrush and the strange harp-chords of the veery or Wilson thrush.

  • The Russet-backed Thrush is not much given to song, altho on occasion the woodside may ring with the simple melody of its wee loo weelo weeloeee[35].

  • Brown located about a hundred sets of the Russet-backed Thrush, taking no account of nests in other stages of occupation.

  • Close by her stood an olive-backed thrush.

  • Now straight before me, up a woody aisle, an olive-backed thrush stands in full view and a perfect light, facing me and singing, a lovely chorister.

  • The species may be known from the Veery and Wood Thrush by its olive, instead of cinnamon-brown back, and from the Olive-backed Thrush by its whitish eye-ring and paler breast.

  • Those who have heard the olive-backed thrush singing an even-song to its brooding mate compare it with the veery's, but it has a break in it and is less simple and pleasing than the latter's.

  • Like the olive-backed thrush, from which it is almost impossible to tell it when both are alive and hopping about the shrubbery, its plumage above is a dull olive-brown that is more protective than pleasing.


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