Townsend's solitaire

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of Townsend's solitaire

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 Food Habits of the Thrushes of the United States USDA Bulletin 280 by Beal, F. E. L.

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

From Food Habits of the Thrushes of the United States USDA Bulletin 280 by Beal, F. E. L.