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Page 94
... reddish - brown . Breeding - season : July to Novem- ber ; May and June ; or after rain . 9. Fuscous Honey - eater Meliphaga fusca Gould fus ' - ca - L . , fuscus , brown . Distribution . - Eastern Australia , from Queensland Australia ...
... reddish - brown . Breeding - season : July to Novem- ber ; May and June ; or after rain . 9. Fuscous Honey - eater Meliphaga fusca Gould fus ' - ca - L . , fuscus , brown . Distribution . - Eastern Australia , from Queensland Australia ...
Page 97
... reddish - brown and lilac markings , which become massed at the larger end . Breeding - season : October to February ... reddish - buff , becoming darker at the larger end , spotted and speckled with reddish and purplish - brown mark ...
... reddish - brown and lilac markings , which become massed at the larger end . Breeding - season : October to February ... reddish - buff , becoming darker at the larger end , spotted and speckled with reddish and purplish - brown mark ...
Page 251
... reddish - brown , intermingled with underlying markings of greyish - violet and greyish - blue , forming a zone at the larger end where there are a few surface spots and streaks of dark blackish - brown ( Calidris canutus ) . Breeding ...
... reddish - brown , intermingled with underlying markings of greyish - violet and greyish - blue , forming a zone at the larger end where there are a few surface spots and streaks of dark blackish - brown ( Calidris canutus ) . Breeding ...
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Aru Islands August to December Bass Strait big scrubs bird branch Breeding-season brown call-note called Cape York cobwebs composed of dried composed of sticks Distribution.-Australia Distribution.-Northern Distribution.-Northern Queensland dried grasses Eggs Eggs.-Four Eggs.-Three or four Eggs.-Two Eggs.-Usually eucalypts feet Female Food forked freckled frequenting chiefly Gould ground Guinea habits and economy hollow limb Honey-eater inhabiting insects insects of various Islands larger end larvæ Latham limb or hole low bush mangroves Molucca Islands native fruits Nest Nest.-A Nest.-A depression Nest.-A large Nest.-An open Northern Territory Notes numbers pairs or flocks pairs or small pale Parrot plants purplish-brown purplish-grey Queensland reddish-brown rootlets scrub-lands seeds of grasses September to December Silver-eye similar in habits small flocks South Australia South Wales southern Australia species spinifex spotted and blotched strips of bark swamps Tasmania Temminck tree twigs underlying markings Usually in flocks Usually in pairs Usually placed Usually singly uttered Western Australia Zealand