. An Australian bird book : a pocket book for field use. Birds -- Australia Identification. 150 AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD 3 320*Yellow-breasted Shrike-Tit (Yellow-bellied, Frontal, 3 Crested), Falcon-Shrike, Falcunculus frontatus, , Stat. r. timber Upper green; crest, throat, line through eye black; patch above eye, patch below eye white; under bright-yellow; strong hooked bill; f., throat green. Insects. Musical notes. do not hold their prey in their feet, so they fasten it in the fork of a tree, or on a thorn. Then they proceed to eat it, or leave it until they are hungry. Our S
. An Australian bird book : a pocket book for field use. Birds -- Australia Identification. 150 AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD 3 320*Yellow-breasted Shrike-Tit (Yellow-bellied, Frontal, 3 Crested), Falcon-Shrike, Falcunculus frontatus, , Stat. r. timber Upper green; crest, throat, line through eye black; patch above eye, patch below eye white; under bright-yellow; strong hooked bill; f., throat green. Insects. Musical notes. do not hold their prey in their feet, so they fasten it in the fork of a tree, or on a thorn. Then they proceed to eat it, or leave it until they are hungry. Our Shrike or Butcher-Bird has the same habit. The Australian Butcher-Bird has a rich, mellow, flute-like note, which is more frequently heard in autumn. Some consider his one of the best of bird-notes. His strongly-hooked bill renders him a terror to small birds, including caged Canaries. That glorious songster, the Australian Magpie, is placed in this family. These Australian songsters are now divided into five closely-similar species, all possessing the same rich carol. The Tasmanian bird was formerly called the "; This Aus- tralian musician is responsible for the European epigram of "white Crows that ; These birds are not Crows, nor are they white, but they sing, so that Alfred Russel Wallace has de- clared that no European songbird can equal them. Gould found it impossible to describe their "carol," and regretted that "his readers could not," as he had done, "listen to the birds in their. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Leach, John Albert, 1870-1929; Horn Scientific Expedition (1894). Melbourne : Whitcombe & Tombs
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