Town|send's solitaire

Town|send's solitaire
Town|send's solitaire «TOWN zuhndz»,
a songbird of western North America related to the thrush; it resembles a mockingbird, with a gray body and a white ring around the eye.
[< John Kirk Townsend, 1809-1851, an American ornithologist]

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