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Page 63
... call - note . Food : insects , mostly procured on the ground . Nest . - Cup - shaped , composed of fine rootlets , bark , and grass , bound together with cobwebs ; lined with very fine rootlets ; occasionally decorated with strips of ...
... call - note . Food : insects , mostly procured on the ground . Nest . - Cup - shaped , composed of fine rootlets , bark , and grass , bound together with cobwebs ; lined with very fine rootlets ; occasionally decorated with strips of ...
Page 65
... call is frequently uttered ; in addition it has a succession of sweet and high - pitched call- notes . Nest ... note , a single " Ko " or " Koo , " very softly uttered . Another description is a plaintive whistling note like a faint ...
... call is frequently uttered ; in addition it has a succession of sweet and high - pitched call- notes . Nest ... note , a single " Ko " or " Koo , " very softly uttered . Another description is a plaintive whistling note like a faint ...
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... Notes . Also called Black - banded White - face . Usually in pairs or flocks , frequenting open country . It is similar in habits to the other White - faces , but its call - note is different and much sweeter . Food : insects and seeds ...
... Notes . Also called Black - banded White - face . Usually in pairs or flocks , frequenting open country . It is similar in habits to the other White - faces , but its call - note is different and much sweeter . Food : insects and seeds ...
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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