Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the back olivaceous: as, the olive-backed thrush. See oliveback.

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Examples

  • Response: This is a male olive-backed Sunbird, Cinnyris jugularis.

    Mystery bird: olive-backed sunbird, Cinnyris jugularis 2011

  • Smithsonian scientists have published the description of a new bird, the olive-backed forest robin (Stiphrornis pyrrholaemus), from Gabon in Africa.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • Scientists have discovered a new species of bird in Gabon, Africa, that was, until now, unknown to the scientific community: an olive-backed forest robin (Stiphrornis pyrrholaemus).

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Smithsonian scientists discover new bird species 2008

  • I saw olive-backed one in KL as well as brown-throated.

    Distractions and writing Glenda Larke 2008

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    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Smithsonian scientists discover new bird species 2008

  • And i was like, trying to help nicole with her flattening concert B flat when everyone was just quiet, and i decided to stare at the olive-backed sunbird up there, when i turned and ...

    yanxious Diary Entry yanxious 2006

  • One fall I picked up a dead olive-backed thrush in the Zoological Park.

    The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

  • The olive-backed thrush you will enjoy after your day's work is quite finished.

    The Forest Stewart Edward White 1909

  • I don't know why talking of Macaulay always makes me think of Scott, whose books in a faded, olive-backed line, have a shelf, you see, of their own.

    Through the Magic Door Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1907

  • Mr. Beard says that among the birds killed or crippled by flying against those wires near Redding he has seen the following species: olive-backed thrush, white-throated sparrow and other sparrows, oriole, blue jay, rail, ruffed grouse, and woodcock.

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

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