What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 121
... Female has an orange . red spot below the cheek . NEST . Placed within a hollow limb or trunk of a tree , the hollow being lined with pieces of bark , grass , and fur ; placed at heights up to 40 feet from the ground . EGGS . Two or ...
... Female has an orange . red spot below the cheek . NEST . Placed within a hollow limb or trunk of a tree , the hollow being lined with pieces of bark , grass , and fur ; placed at heights up to 40 feet from the ground . EGGS . Two or ...
Page 175
... Female Stip - it - ur ' - us - L . , stipes , stipitis , stem ; Gk , ura ( oura ) , tail : mal - a- chur ' - us - Gk ... female does not possess stripes above the eyes , or on the cheeks or throat ( see female of the Emu Wren ) . NEST ...
... Female Stip - it - ur ' - us - L . , stipes , stipitis , stem ; Gk , ura ( oura ) , tail : mal - a- chur ' - us - Gk ... female does not possess stripes above the eyes , or on the cheeks or throat ( see female of the Emu Wren ) . NEST ...
Page 183
... female is very similar to the female Black - backed Wren . NEST . A dome - shaped structure , composed throughout of soft dead grey grasses , intermingled with silky - white and brown plant down , the latter material also being used as ...
... female is very similar to the female Black - backed Wren . NEST . A dome - shaped structure , composed throughout of soft dead grey grasses , intermingled with silky - white and brown plant down , the latter material also being used as ...
Contents
BIRDS OF THE LAKES Streams and SwamPS | 217 |
BIRDS OF THE OCEAN AND SHORE | 251 |
BIRDS INTRODUCED AND ESTABLISHED IN AUSTRALIA | 291 |
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What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia Neville William Cayley No preview available - 1931 |
Common terms and phrases
Aru Islands August to December Bass Strait big scrubs bird Breeding-season brown call-note called Cape York Cape York Peninsula cobwebs composed of dried composed of sticks cup-shaped structure DISTRIBUTION dome-shaped structure dried grasses eastern EGGS eucalypts feet Female Food freckled frequenting chiefly Gould ground Guinea habits and economy herbage hollow limb Honey-eater inhabiting insects insects of various Islands larger end larvæ Latham limb or hole low bush mangroves Molucca Islands native fruits nectar NEST north-western Australia northern Australia Northern Queensland Northern Territory NOTES numbers October to January 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 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