What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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... dull purple , and dull purplish - grey . Breeding - season : August to December . 8. Regent Bower - bird Sericulus chrysocephalus Lewin - 8A . Female Ser - ic ' - u - lus — Gk , sericos , silken : chrys - o - ceph ' - al - us — Gk ...
... dull purple , and dull purplish - grey . Breeding - season : August to December . 8. Regent Bower - bird Sericulus chrysocephalus Lewin - 8A . Female Ser - ic ' - u - lus — Gk , sericos , silken : chrys - o - ceph ' - al - us — Gk ...
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... dull grey and umber markings . Breeding - season : Septem- ber to January . 20. Rufous Shrike - thrush Colluricincla megarhyncha Quoy and Gaimard Coll - u - ri - cinc ' - la - Gk , collurion , shrike ; Gk , cinclos , bird ( thrush ) ...
... dull grey and umber markings . Breeding - season : Septem- ber to January . 20. Rufous Shrike - thrush Colluricincla megarhyncha Quoy and Gaimard Coll - u - ri - cinc ' - la - Gk , collurion , shrike ; Gk , cinclos , bird ( thrush ) ...
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... dull white uniformly covered with dots , freckles , spots , and a few irregular - shaped blotches of reddish - purple and faint underlying markings of dull purplish - grey . Breeding - season : September to January ( Australia ) . 26 ...
... dull white uniformly covered with dots , freckles , spots , and a few irregular - shaped blotches of reddish - purple and faint underlying markings of dull purplish - grey . Breeding - season : September to January ( Australia ) . 26 ...
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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