What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 55
... numbers of useful species of birds , eating both their eggs and young . Nest . - A large , open , roughly formed structure , composed of twigs and sticks ; lined with rootlets , bark - fibre , and other fine materials . Usu- ally built ...
... numbers of useful species of birds , eating both their eggs and young . Nest . - A large , open , roughly formed structure , composed of twigs and sticks ; lined with rootlets , bark - fibre , and other fine materials . Usu- ally built ...
Page 89
... numbers , chiefly on the Mitchell grass plains , but it is rarely seen now . Its flesh is excellent eating , numbers being killed when visiting the drinking - pools at dusk . When flushed , the flocks rise with a loud whirring noise ...
... numbers , chiefly on the Mitchell grass plains , but it is rarely seen now . Its flesh is excellent eating , numbers being killed when visiting the drinking - pools at dusk . When flushed , the flocks rise with a loud whirring noise ...
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... numbers of injurious insects . Food : insects and their larvæ , seeds , and fruits . 11. Common Myna Acridotheres tristis Linnæus Distribution . - India and Afghanistan . Description . - Head and neck , black ; upper - parts , brown ...
... numbers of injurious insects . Food : insects and their larvæ , seeds , and fruits . 11. Common Myna Acridotheres tristis Linnæus Distribution . - India and Afghanistan . Description . - Head and neck , black ; upper - parts , brown ...
Contents
BIRDS OF THE LAKES STREAMS AND SWAMPS | 217 |
BIRDS OF THE OCEAN AND SHORE | 251 |
BIRDS INTRODUCED AND ESTABLISHED IN AUSTRALIA | 291 |
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Aru Islands August to December Bass Strait big scrubs bird branch Breeding-season brown call-note called Cape York cobwebs colour composed of dried composed of sticks Distribution.-Australia Distribution.-Northern Queensland dried grasses dull eastern 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 large north-western Australia 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