[ANT sb.] A bird of the Thrush family, which lives on ants and allied insects.
1863. Bates, Nat. on Amazons, i. 7. Ant-thrushes (a tribe of plainly-coloured birds intermediate in structure between flycatchers and thrushes).
1869. J. Gray, in Guide Brit. Mus., 10. The Thrushes: some of these have long legs and short tails, such as the tropical Ant-thrushes.
