What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 62
... rootlets ; lined with finer rootlets , and lightly covered outside with cobwebs . Usually built in an upright fork of a mangrove tree . Eggs . - Two , whitish , spotted with chestnut and underlying spots of lavender , with a heavy zone ...
... rootlets ; lined with finer rootlets , and lightly covered outside with cobwebs . Usually built in an upright fork of a mangrove tree . Eggs . - Two , whitish , spotted with chestnut and underlying spots of lavender , with a heavy zone ...
Page 63
... rootlets joined with cobwebs ; lined with finer rootlets ; beautifully decorated on the outside with strips of bark and pieces of lichen . Often built in an upright or horizontal fork , and sometimes on a horizontal branch of a low tree ...
... rootlets joined with cobwebs ; lined with finer rootlets ; beautifully decorated on the outside with strips of bark and pieces of lichen . Often built in an upright or horizontal fork , and sometimes on a horizontal branch of a low tree ...
Page 102
... rootlets , and sometimes horse - hair ; usually scantily lined with very fine grass and a few rootlets , and occasionally with horse - hair . Gen- erally suspended from a thin , forked , horizontal twig of a drooping branch of a tree ...
... rootlets , and sometimes horse - hair ; usually scantily lined with very fine grass and a few rootlets , and occasionally with horse - hair . Gen- erally suspended from a thin , forked , horizontal twig of a drooping branch of a tree ...
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