What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 134
... low bush , in a shrub , or in tall grass . Eggs . - Three or four , white , with reddish - brown spots on the larger end . Breeding - season : July to December and often in the autumn months . 17. Crimson Chat Epthianura tricolor Gould ...
... low bush , in a shrub , or in tall grass . Eggs . - Three or four , white , with reddish - brown spots on the larger end . Breeding - season : July to December and often in the autumn months . 17. Crimson Chat Epthianura tricolor Gould ...
Page 177
... bush , blue - bush , and low scrub - lands . It is shy and very cautious , running mouse - like over the ground among the herbage . Call- note , a sweet and melodious song . Food : insects of various kinds , pro- cured on the ground or ...
... bush , blue - bush , and low scrub - lands . It is shy and very cautious , running mouse - like over the ground among the herbage . Call- note , a sweet and melodious song . Food : insects of various kinds , pro- cured on the ground or ...
Page 183
... low bush , favourite nesting - sites being salt - bushes and blue - bushes . Eggs . Three or four , white to rich pinkish or faint reddish - white , finely freckled , dotted , and blotched with shades varying from rich pinkish- red to ...
... low bush , favourite nesting - sites being salt - bushes and blue - bushes . Eggs . Three or four , white to rich pinkish or faint reddish - white , finely freckled , dotted , and blotched with shades varying from rich pinkish- red to ...
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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