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Page 24
... cobwebs , and lined . with finer materials ; the tail - piece is about 2 to 3 inches in length . Built on a horizontal thin branch of a tree up to 20 feet or more from the ground . EGGS . TWO , sometimes three , stone or buff - coloured ...
... cobwebs , and lined . with finer materials ; the tail - piece is about 2 to 3 inches in length . Built on a horizontal thin branch of a tree up to 20 feet or more from the ground . EGGS . TWO , sometimes three , stone or buff - coloured ...
Page 74
... cobwebs , lined with rootlets and a little hair ; externally covered with cobwebs and frequently a few pieces of lichen . Usually built on a horizontal dead limb , protected above by a live limb , at a considerable height from the ...
... cobwebs , lined with rootlets and a little hair ; externally covered with cobwebs and frequently a few pieces of lichen . Usually built on a horizontal dead limb , protected above by a live limb , at a considerable height from the ...
Page 127
... cobwebs ; lined with hair , fur , feathers , or other soft materials . Generally built in a forked limb or on a horizontal branch of a low tree . Often the nest is placed between a piece of projecting bark and the trunk of a tree . EGGS ...
... cobwebs ; lined with hair , fur , feathers , or other soft materials . Generally built in a forked limb or on a horizontal branch of a low tree . Often the nest is placed between a piece of projecting bark and the trunk of a tree . EGGS ...
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