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... BIG SCRUBS PLATE LIST OF PLATES I AUSTRALIA'S LARGEST BIRDS ( EXCLUDING SEA - BIRDS ) FOREST - FREQUENTING BIRDS II BIRDS OF THE BRUSHES AND BIG SCRUBS III BIRDS OF THE BRUSHES AND BIG SCRUBS IV V NOCTURNAL BIRDS PAGE Frontispiece 10 16 ...
... BIG SCRUBS PLATE LIST OF PLATES I AUSTRALIA'S LARGEST BIRDS ( EXCLUDING SEA - BIRDS ) FOREST - FREQUENTING BIRDS II BIRDS OF THE BRUSHES AND BIG SCRUBS III BIRDS OF THE BRUSHES AND BIG SCRUBS IV V NOCTURNAL BIRDS PAGE Frontispiece 10 16 ...
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A Guide to the Birds of Australia Neville William Cayley. the big scrubs of the mainland and many islands off the coast . It is very similar in habits and call - notes to the Paradise Rifle - bird . Food : native fruits and ... BIG SCRUBS II.
A Guide to the Birds of Australia Neville William Cayley. the big scrubs of the mainland and many islands off the coast . It is very similar in habits and call - notes to the Paradise Rifle - bird . Food : native fruits and ... BIG SCRUBS II.
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... scrubs , more especially those of the ranges ; it is shy , preferring the seclusion of the thickets ; its call - note resembles " Peee- ee - pooooo " ; other notes have a sharp , crack - like ending . Food : insects of ... BIG SCRUBS 29.
... scrubs , more especially those of the ranges ; it is shy , preferring the seclusion of the thickets ; its call - note resembles " Peee- ee - pooooo " ; other notes have a sharp , crack - like ending . Food : insects of ... BIG SCRUBS 29.
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Aru Islands August to December Bass Strait big scrubs bird branch Breeding-season brown call-note called Cape York cobwebs composed of dried composed of sticks Distribution.-Australia Distribution.-Northern Distribution.-Northern Queensland dried grasses Eggs Eggs.-Four Eggs.-Three or four Eggs.-Two Eggs.-Usually eucalypts feet Female Food forked freckled frequenting chiefly 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 depression Nest.-A large Nest.-An open 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