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Definition of Brown thrasher
1. Noun. Common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brown Thrasher
Literary usage of Brown thrasher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"It is his congener, the mocking brown thrasher, with his " plough it! plough it!
hoe it! hoe it! ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"Wintering of the brown thrasher in a Park in New York City.— A brown thrasher (Toxostoma
rufum) passed the winter of 1904-05 in ..."
3. Our Common Birds and how to Know Themby John Beveridge Grant by John Beveridge Grant (1891)
"The brown thrasher remains for the most part in the cover of thickets in whose
recesses he has his nest, but when the singing frenzy is on him he may be ..."
4. Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music: A Description of the Character and by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1904)
"The voice of the brown thrasher is so similar to that of the Catbird that one
might be easily mistaken for the other; but there is an unvarying difference ..."
5. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"brown thrasher. B. Tail barred with numerous small black or blackish bars; birds
under 6.00 in length. 1. Crown, back and wing coverts streaked with white. ..."
6. Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds by Mabel Osgood Wright (1897)
"... Thrushes with their spiritual melodies. Was it not by the rendering of such
contrasts that Shakespeare mirrored Nature in every phase ? brown thrasher: ..."
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