an American warbler, Icteria virens, having a yellow throat and breast and greenish-brown upper parts and noted for imitating the songs of other species.
Origin
1720-30, Americanism
Examples from the web for yellow-breasted chat
The glades often have prairie warbler, yellow-breasted chat, and white-eyed vireo frequenting them.
yellow-breasted chat and prairie warbler also breed in the regenerating shrub land.