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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 ... mangroves ; similar in habits to SOME BIRDS OF THE MANGROVES 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 ... mangroves ; similar in habits to SOME BIRDS OF THE MANGROVES 157.
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 " whip - crack " ending which is characteristic of the song ...
... 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 " whip - crack " ending which is characteristic of the song ...
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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