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Page 146
... inhabiting chiefly timber bordering watercourses , and the adjoining open country . It is generally seen on the ground in search of seeds of grasses and other plants . When disturbed , it flies to the nearest timber , uttering its ...
... inhabiting chiefly timber bordering watercourses , and the adjoining open country . It is generally seen on the ground in search of seeds of grasses and other plants . When disturbed , it flies to the nearest timber , uttering its ...
Page 148
... inhabiting scrub and open forest - lands , or timber bordering watercourses . It is generally seen on the ground searching for the seeds of grasses and other plants . At other times it may be observed feeding on the flower - buds of ...
... inhabiting scrub and open forest - lands , or timber bordering watercourses . It is generally seen on the ground searching for the seeds of grasses and other plants . At other times it may be observed feeding on the flower - buds of ...
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... inhabiting the open plains . It is nomadic , its appearance being regulated by the rainfall ; if the season is a good one , large flocks appear ; in times of drought it seldom visits its old haunts . It lies close , and when flushed ...
... inhabiting the open plains . It is nomadic , its appearance being regulated by the rainfall ; if the season is a good one , large flocks appear ; in times of drought it seldom visits its old haunts . It lies close , and when flushed ...
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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