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... species . It has a melodious call , and also utters a loud and deep guttural note . Food : native fruits and berries . Nest . - An open and rather shallow structure , composed almost en- tirely of strong curly vine tendrils and creeping ...
... species . It has a melodious call , and also utters a loud and deep guttural note . Food : native fruits and berries . Nest . - An open and rather shallow structure , composed almost en- tirely of strong curly vine tendrils and creeping ...
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... species . Nest . Similar to those of the above two species . Eggs . Similar to those of the above two species . 16. Raven Corvus coronoides Vigors and Horsfield Cor ' - vus - L . , corvus , crow : cor - on - oid - ēs — Gk , corone ...
... species . Nest . Similar to those of the above two species . Eggs . Similar to those of the above two species . 16. Raven Corvus coronoides Vigors and Horsfield Cor ' - vus - L . , corvus , crow : cor - on - oid - ēs — Gk , corone ...
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... species inhabiting our_seas . It is similar in habits and economy to the other species of Terns . Breeds in large colonies on islands off the coasts throughout its range . Nest . - A depression in the sand or earth . Eggs . - One ...
... species inhabiting our_seas . It is similar in habits and economy to the other species of Terns . Breeds in large colonies on islands off the coasts throughout its range . Nest . - A depression in the sand or earth . Eggs . - One ...
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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