The Brown-backed Solitaire is a thrush of mountain forests from Mexico into northern Central America. It is brown with gray markings and eats mostly fruit in forests near water.
It is about 20.5–21.5 cm long, brown with some gray markings.
It uses mountain forest near water and feeds mostly on fruit.
In the Los Andes sector of El Salvador in 2004, it built open cup nests in recesses in earthen banks beside trails, using moss around the outside and fern roots among the inner materials.
In the Los Andes sector of El Salvador, the eggs are oval and whitish with abundant brown spots.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.