. Birds of the water, wood & waste . Nest ot Ground The Ground Lark [HERE are several species onthe run that may be calledhomestead birds, such as theNew Zealand Pipit, orGround Lark, the Waxeye,the Warbler, and the Fantail. A specimenor two of each of these breeds may benearly always noticed about the gardensor orchards or plantations. Each is at-tracted by his special desire, the Pipitby dug soils, the Waxeye and Warbler bygreen fly on the rose beds, and caterpillarson the flower borders, and the Fantail bytree and shrub growth, and in mid-winterespecially by the blossoming gums that
. Birds of the water, wood & waste . Nest ot Ground The Ground Lark [HERE are several species onthe run that may be calledhomestead birds, such as theNew Zealand Pipit, orGround Lark, the Waxeye,the Warbler, and the Fantail. A specimenor two of each of these breeds may benearly always noticed about the gardensor orchards or plantations. Each is at-tracted by his special desire, the Pipitby dug soils, the Waxeye and Warbler bygreen fly on the rose beds, and caterpillarson the flower borders, and the Fantail bytree and shrub growth, and in mid-winterespecially by the blossoming gums that thenyield a plenteous supply of small mothsand insects. Nearly every day the NewZealand Pipit may be seen, the little grey,broT^Ti bird that half of us think is anEnglish skylark, and the other half fail to 120 BIRDS OF THE WATER notice at all, yet if any feathered creaturemay claim particular recognition, it issurely he who is not one bird but us in the Antipodes he takes the placeof four British species, the Skylark, theWagtail, the Flycatche
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