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Definition of Mocking thrush
1. Noun. Thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs.
Generic synonyms: Oscine, Oscine Bird
Group relationships: Genus Toxostoma, Toxostoma
Specialized synonyms: Brown Thrasher, Brown Thrush, Toxostoma Rufums
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mocking Thrush
Literary usage of Mocking thrush
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1909)
"Now let us suppose the mocking-thrush of Chatham Island to be blown to Charles
Island, which has its own mocking-thrush; why should it succeed in ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Now let us suppose the mocking-thrush of Chatham Island to be blown to Charles
Island, which has its own mocking-thrush; why should ..."
3. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"The distribution of the tenants of this archipelago would not be nearly so
wonderful, if, for instance, one island had a mocking-thrush, and a second island ..."
4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"The mocking-thrush, properly so called, derives its name from the peculiar talent
which it possesses of imitating the cries and a part of the song of other ..."
5. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1902)
"The distribution of the tenants of this archipelago would not be nearly so
wonderful, if, for instance, one island had a mocking-thrush, and a second island ..."
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