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Page 87
... low bush or tree in the scrub . EGGS . Usually two , pure white . Breeding - season : August to March . 4. Plumed ... low , scrubby bushes and spinifex . It is remarkably tame and difficult to flush from the ground . Food : seeds of ...
... low bush or tree in the scrub . EGGS . Usually two , pure white . Breeding - season : August to March . 4. Plumed ... low , scrubby bushes and spinifex . It is remarkably tame and difficult to flush from the ground . Food : seeds of ...
Page 177
... bush , blue - bush , and low scrub - lands . It is shy and very cautious , running mouse - like over the ground among the herbage . Call - note , a sweet and melodious song . Food : insects of various kinds , procured on the ground or ...
... bush , blue - bush , and low scrub - lands . It is shy and very cautious , running mouse - like over the ground among the herbage . Call - note , a sweet and melodious song . Food : insects of various kinds , procured on the ground or ...
Page 183
... low bush , favourite nesting - sites being salt - bushes and blue - bushes . EGGS . Three or four , white to rich pinkish or faint reddish - white , finely freckled , dotted , and blotched with shades varying from rich pinkish - red to ...
... low bush , favourite nesting - sites being salt - bushes and blue - bushes . EGGS . Three or four , white to rich pinkish or faint reddish - white , finely freckled , dotted , and blotched with shades varying from rich pinkish - red to ...
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