Townsend's solitaire

noun

1. a brownish, slender-billed songbird, Myadestes townsendi, of western North America.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Townsend's solitaire¹

1885–90, named after John Kirk Townsend (1809–51), U.S. ornithologist

Example Sentences

The Townsend’s warbler and the Townsend’s solitaire still invoke John Kirk Townsend, whose journals detail his exploits in traditional Native Americans burial grounds in the West.

From Washington Post

They consist of the birds commonly known as thrushes, robins, bluebirds, Townsend's solitaire, and the wheatears.

From Project Gutenberg

Townsend's solitaire, a bird of the far West, is a resident of high mountains and lonely gorges.

From Project Gutenberg

Dickerman saw a Townsend's Solitaire in the Sierra de la Madera on December 13, 1953.

From Project Gutenberg

With the exception of a similar exhibition by Townsend's solitaire—to be described in the closing chapter—up in the neighborhood of Gray's Peak, it was the most wonderful avian aeronautic exploit, accompanied with song, of which I have ever been witness.

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