Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird of the genus Seiurus, as S. nævius or S. motacilla, common in the United States, and belonging to the American warblers, or Mniotiltidæ.
- noun Any bird of the family Pittidæ; an Old World ant-thrush. See cut under
Pittidæ . - noun The water-ouzel, Cinclus aquaticus.
- noun Same as
water-wagtail , 1.
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Examples
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The yellow-throat and the water-thrush and the vireos still sing the same tunes in the thicket.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892
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Deep in some willowy tangle the water-thrush might sing.
In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885
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Common enough in our woods are two birds that have many of the habits and manners of the lark -- the water-thrush and the golden-crowned thrush, or oven-bird.
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers John Burroughs 1879
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He struck me as bearing a close resemblance to our hermit thrush, with something in his manners that suggested the water-thrush also.
Winter Sunshine John Burroughs 1879
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By the creek in the woods you hear the first water-thrush -- a short, bright, ringing, hurried song.
The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879
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In this song you instantly detect his relationship to the water-wagtail, -- erroneously called water-thrush, -- whose song is likewise a sudden burst, full and ringing, and with a tone of youthful joyousness in it, as if the bird had just had some unexpected good fortune.
In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879
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"sudden burst," which is like the song of our water-thrush.
Winter Sunshine John Burroughs 1879
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