What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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... bark - fibre and grasses , coated with fine green moss and also cobwebs and spiders ' egg - bags ; lined with fine ... strips of bark and bark - fibre , with which are interwoven leaves , fern rootlets , and grass ; lined with bark ...
... bark - fibre and grasses , coated with fine green moss and also cobwebs and spiders ' egg - bags ; lined with fine ... strips of bark and bark - fibre , with which are interwoven leaves , fern rootlets , and grass ; lined with bark ...
Page 65
... strips of stringy - bark , matted together with cobwebs ; lined with grass and thin strands of fine bark . Usually built near the top of the tallest upright branches of a gum sapling up to 50 feet from the ground . Eggs . - Two , white ...
... strips of stringy - bark , matted together with cobwebs ; lined with grass and thin strands of fine bark . Usually built near the top of the tallest upright branches of a gum sapling up to 50 feet from the ground . Eggs . - Two , white ...
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... strips of bark and leaves ; lined with leaves . Usually placed in an old stump , or in a cleft in a wall of sandstone . Eggs . Three or four , varying in shape and size , white , spotted and blotched with light olive - brown and pale ...
... strips of bark and leaves ; lined with leaves . Usually placed in an old stump , or in a cleft in a wall of sandstone . Eggs . Three or four , varying in shape and size , white , spotted and blotched with light olive - brown and pale ...
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