. An Australian bird book : a pocket book for field use. Birds -- Australia Identification. 1?4 AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD 2 370*Wattle - Bird, Red Wattle-Bird, Gill-Bird, Wattled 2 Honey-eater, Mutton-Bird (e), Acanthcchacra carun- culata, , , V., , Stat. c. timber Brown streaked, lined white; red wattle £in.; whitish below eye, between shoulder and gill; wing quills and tail tipped white; centre abdomen yellow; f., smaller. Insects, honey. "Kwock, kwock;" "Up with the ; Many curious guttural notes. The Helmeted Honey-eater is very rare, and is p
. An Australian bird book : a pocket book for field use. Birds -- Australia Identification. 1?4 AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD 2 370*Wattle - Bird, Red Wattle-Bird, Gill-Bird, Wattled 2 Honey-eater, Mutton-Bird (e), Acanthcchacra carun- culata, , , V., , Stat. c. timber Brown streaked, lined white; red wattle £in.; whitish below eye, between shoulder and gill; wing quills and tail tipped white; centre abdomen yellow; f., smaller. Insects, honey. "Kwock, kwock;" "Up with the ; Many curious guttural notes. The Helmeted Honey-eater is very rare, and is probably con- fined to the deep forests of Gippsland. It is one of the most splendid of Honey-eaters. That active city-dweller, the Greenie, is found in almost every large eucalypt that happens to be in flower. It is pugnacious. As it busily brushes honey from the flowers, or catches an insect on the wing, the white ear plume can be seen. Otherwise, it has not conspicuous colors. Its lively call of "chick-oo-wee" adds some thing to life for the busy city toiler. Now come the Miners. The Noisy Miner is known to nearly everyone. It is a common visitor to school grounds at lunch time, and is a noisy bird that is little loved by sportsmen, for it persists in alarming all game within reach. A second Miner is famous as the Bell-Bird, better Bell-Miner. The tinkling notes, "like silver bells from a distant shrine," must be heard in a deep fern gully to be appreciated fully. The green birds are seldom. 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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