What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 19
... twigs and broad leaves ; lined with twigs and dead wiry stems of climbing plants . Usually placed near the top of a bushy sapling or small tree in dense scrub , at heights up to 20 feet from the ground . Eggs . - Usually two , rarely ...
... twigs and broad leaves ; lined with twigs and dead wiry stems of climbing plants . Usually placed near the top of a bushy sapling or small tree in dense scrub , at heights up to 20 feet from the ground . Eggs . - Usually two , rarely ...
Page 78
... twigs , and plant - stalks ; lined with finer materials , and occasionally horse- hair . Usually placed in a small shrub or bush , about 3 or 4 feet from the ground . Eggs . Usually four , fleshy - white , uniformly spotted and blotched ...
... twigs , and plant - stalks ; lined with finer materials , and occasionally horse- hair . Usually placed in a small shrub or bush , about 3 or 4 feet from the ground . Eggs . Usually four , fleshy - white , uniformly spotted and blotched ...
Page 127
... twigs , in fact so compact are the walls of the bower that they can be moved en masse . The decorations used about the bowers are mostly bunches of green berries . This species is an excellent mimic . Food : seeds , and native fruits ...
... twigs , in fact so compact are the walls of the bower that they can be moved en masse . The decorations used about the bowers are mostly bunches of green berries . This species is an excellent mimic . Food : seeds , and native fruits ...
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