olive-backed thrush

How to use olive-backed thrush in a sentence

• One fall I picked up a dead olive-backed thrush in the Zoological Park.

  The Log of the Sun | William Beebe

• I have had persons say they saw and heard them in this section, when it was either the hermit or olive-backed thrush.

  The Boy Patrol Around the Council Fire | Edward Sylvester Ellis

• Last May I glanced up from my book and espied an olive-backed thrush in the back yard, foraging among the currant-bushes.

  The Foot-path Way | Bradford Torrey

• One day as I sat here I heard the song of the olive-backed thrush down in the currant-bushes below me.

  Under the Maples | John Burroughs

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

  Everyday Adventures | Samuel Scoville