What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 121
... 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 three , white , sparingly marked with spots of reddish- brown and purplish ...
... 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 three , white , sparingly marked with spots of reddish- brown and purplish ...
Page 137
... limb of a tree like a lizard , instead of perching on a twig or thin branch . Food : seeds of grasses and herb- aceous plants . Nest . In a hollow limb or hole in a tree . Eggs . - Four to six , white . and November . Breeding - season ...
... limb of a tree like a lizard , instead of perching on a twig or thin branch . Food : seeds of grasses and herb- aceous plants . Nest . In a hollow limb or hole in a tree . Eggs . - Four to six , white . and November . Breeding - season ...
Page 154
... hollow limb or hole in a tree . Eggs . Usually two , white . Breeding - season : August to December . 13. Varied Lorikeet Psitteuteles versicolor Lear Psitt - eu - tel - es - Gk , psitte , parrot ; Gk , euteles , paltry : ver ' - si ...
... hollow limb or hole in a tree . Eggs . Usually two , white . Breeding - season : August to December . 13. Varied Lorikeet Psitteuteles versicolor Lear Psitt - eu - tel - es - Gk , psitte , parrot ; Gk , euteles , paltry : ver ' - si ...
Common terms and phrases
Aru Islands August to December Bass Strait big scrubs bird branch Breeding-season brown call-note called Cape York cobwebs colour composed of dried composed of sticks Distribution.-Australia Distribution.-Northern Queensland dried grasses dull eastern Eggs Eggs.-Four Eggs.-Two Eggs.-Usually eucalypts feet Female Food forked freckled frequenting chiefly frequenting open Gould ground Guinea habits and economy hollow limb Honey-eater inhabiting insects insects of various Islands larger end larvæ Latham limb or hole low bush mangroves Molucca Islands native fruits Nest Nest.-A Nest.-A large north-western Australia northern Queensland Northern Territory Notes numbers 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 Australia 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