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Page 12
... native fruits , principally wild nutmegs from which the mace only is eaten ; also insects , often caught on the wing . NEST . A large , domed structure , rather oval in shape , with an entrance at one side , constructed chiefly of hard ...
... native fruits , principally wild nutmegs from which the mace only is eaten ; also insects , often caught on the wing . NEST . A large , domed structure , rather oval in shape , with an entrance at one side , constructed chiefly of hard ...
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... native fruits and berries . NEST . A neatly made , saucer - shaped structure , without lining , com- posed of long pieces of vine - tendrils and a few twigs . Generally attached to the end of a drooping branch of a tree , at heights up ...
... native fruits and berries . NEST . A neatly made , saucer - shaped structure , without lining , com- posed of long pieces of vine - tendrils and a few twigs . Generally attached to the end of a drooping branch of a tree , at heights up ...
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... native fruits , and berries . NEST . A cup - shaped structure , composed of shreds of bark , fre- quently covered with green moss ; lined with wild cotton and a silky fibre collected from plants . Suspended from a leafy branch of a low ...
... native fruits , and berries . NEST . A cup - shaped structure , composed of shreds of bark , fre- quently covered with green moss ; lined with wild cotton and a silky fibre collected from plants . Suspended from a leafy branch of a low ...
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