Identifier: emu18aust (find matches)
Title: The Emu
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Australasian Ornithologists' Union Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Australasia Periodicals
Publisher: Melbourne : Australasian Ornithologists' Union
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ccasionalh attack chickens. Mr. E. R. Caldwell states :— We have a pair of Black Ialcons(Falco siihnij^er) that have for many years lived in our neighb<nn-hood. I noticed them lately nesting on a tree, \\hen a CollaredButcher-Bird (Cracliciis destructor) passed overhead. The pairset out after the flying bird, and in ten minutes they had him,and all I could And of him was his beak. 1 have seen them killMagpie-Larks often ; these birds suffer more than any other kindfrom the attacks of Hawks. From the same tree I witnessedwhat was nearly a tragedy. This time the Little Falcon (Falcolunulatus) M-as the culprit, with whom were associated fourBlack-throated Butcher-Birds ((nicliciis iiiorof(iil(iris). ilicbalc(jn attacked a Grallina, making several desperate darts at hisintended victim, who cleverly evaded him among the old deadlimbs, crying out all tlie time. Tlic four Butcher-Birds joinedin the chase, evidently assisting the Falcon at every turn. The The Emu, Vol. XVIII. PLATE XVII.
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Mummy Kestrel (Falco tinnunculits) and Peregrine Falcon(F. peregrinus). PHOTO. BY D. LE SOUEF. C M.Z.S Vol. xpil.j lj, Souef, Food of Diurnal Birds of Prey. ^5 Grallina was ha\ing a perilous passage when it left the tree anddeliberately flew to a cow that was lying near by and took shelterunder the animals body, quite defeating the efforts of thewould-be assassins, who flew away to a neighbouring tree. Afterremaining quiet for a time the Grallina came out from its coverand sat on the cows back, only to be attacked, when it im-mediatel)- sought the animals protection again. While all thefuss was going on several other Grallinas in an adjoining tree wereshrieking cries of distress, and I quite expected the Falcon toattack them when it found itself foiled : however, it simply flewawa\. I have seen two similar encounters with Roscllas (Platy-cercus pallidiceps), and on each occasion the Parrot took refugeunder our house, which is built on g-feet piles, to evade itspursuers. However, the m

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