What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 157
... MANGROVES 1. Large - billed Warbler Gerygone magnirostris Gould Gē - ryg ' - on - e -- Gk , gerygone , born of sound : mag - ni - ros ' - tris - L . , magnus great ; L. , rostrum , bill . DISTRIBUTION . Northern Territory and northern ...
... MANGROVES 1. Large - billed Warbler Gerygone magnirostris Gould Gē - ryg ' - on - e -- Gk , gerygone , born of sound : mag - ni - ros ' - tris - L . , magnus great ; L. , rostrum , bill . DISTRIBUTION . Northern Territory and northern ...
Page 158
... mangroves and adjacent scrubs and gardens ; it has a very melodious song ; perhaps the finest among the Warblers ; it frequents the leaves , branches , and blossoms of the mangroves and other flowering trees , seeking small insects of ...
... mangroves and adjacent scrubs and gardens ; it has a very melodious song ; perhaps the finest among the Warblers ; it frequents the leaves , branches , and blossoms of the mangroves and other flowering trees , seeking small insects of ...
Page 161
... mangroves and adjoining dense scrubs and swamps ; usually in pairs . It is very shy and retiring in habits , and has a somewhat pleasing and lengthened song , but without the ... mangroves chiefly , also tea SOME BIRDS OF THE MANGROVES 161.
... mangroves and adjoining dense scrubs and swamps ; usually in pairs . It is very shy and retiring in habits , and has a somewhat pleasing and lengthened song , but without the ... mangroves chiefly , also tea SOME BIRDS OF THE MANGROVES 161.
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