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olive-backed thrush

noun
variants: or olive back

Definition of olive-backed thrush

: a common thrush (Hylocichla ustulata) of northern North America migrating to the tropics that is brownish olive above and whitish beneath and has a ring about the eye and the sides of the head buff and the chest buff marked with black — compare gray-cheeked thrush

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