Identifier: protectednativeb00duff (find matches)
Title: Protected native birds of South Australia
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Duffield, Thomas
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Adelaide : Rogers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ds backward over the eye, where it merges through yellow into white,until it reaches the ear. The throat and chest are yellow, and the abdomenwhite, shading into light brown near the tail. The neck and shouldersare brownish grey, the rump being colored a little lighter brown. Thewing feathers are nearly black, and edged with white at or near the tip,the white edges giving them a streaked or striated appearance. Onthe wing is a distinctive red spot. The tail is black, tipped with white,and is very stumpy. Habitat. The pardalote likes those localities that are timbered with eucalypts. Pood.—The food of this little bird consists chiefly of insect Ufe. Nest.—The nest is a small rounded one, made of fine grass, and situated in a holloweither in a river bank or in a dead limb of a tree. The time of nestingis during September, October, and November. ^QGS. The eggs are white, and usually four in number. They are small, oval, and measure about fin. x ;in. PROTECTED BIRDS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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STRIATED PAf YELLOW-RUMPED TOMTIT lAcanihiza chysorrhwaj. Nearly life-size. DESCRIPTIONS OF OUR NATIVE BIRDS. 15 YELLOW-RUMPED TOMTIT, or YELLOW-RUMPEDTHORNBILL. (Acanthiza chrysorrhoea.), (Yellow-rumped Gegbasileus.) The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves. And lets his illumined being oer-run With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings. And tlie heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings ; He sings to the wide world and she to her nest. In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best ? Lowell. Little Brown Acanthiza (Acanthiza pusilla).Chestnut-rumped Acanthiza (Acanthiza uwpijgialis).OTHER SPECIES AVestern Acanthiza (Acanthiza apicalis) SOUTH AUSTRALIA. IN I Red-rumped Acanthiza (Acanthiza pyrrhopi/gia). Little Acanthiza (Acanthiza nana).Striated Acanthiza (Acanthiza Uncata).BuFF-RUMPED AcANTHiZA (Acanthtza rc(juloidcs). Size.—This tiny bird is barely 4in. long. Bill.—The beak of the tomtit is sm

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