brown-thrasher

It is not a bird that skulks and hides, like the cat-bird, the brown-thrasher, the chat, or the cheewink, and its nest is not concealed with the same art as theirs.

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

Near at hand, upon the topmost spray of a birch, sings the brown-thrasher -- or red mavis, as some love to call him -- all the morning, glad of your society, that would find out another farmer's field if yours were not here.

Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whippoorwill, the brown-thrasher, the veery, the wood-pewee, the chewink, and other birds.

Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

"That is the wood-thrush's own cousin, and a distinguished member of the thrush family, the brown-thrasher.

Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863