. The Emu . Native Climbing Flooded Gum for i\ebl ot Ulack-thioatcl (Cracticus nigri^ularis). FROM A PHOTO. BY C. P. CONIGRAVE. ^iQos^l MiLLlGAN, Notes on Trip to Yandmwoka District, i 55 tion, but his dawn notes resemble the foUowing :— Toll-de-lol-fah (the last note long drawn out and of liquid sweetness) ;then twice and quickly repeated in a lower key— You chatterbox ; then in a higher key and with very full, rounded notes, and twicerepeated— Sweet after forty. So charmed was I with the songand appearance of these birds that I determined to secure one totake home with me.
. The Emu . Native Climbing Flooded Gum for i\ebl ot Ulack-thioatcl (Cracticus nigri^ularis). FROM A PHOTO. BY C. P. CONIGRAVE. ^iQos^l MiLLlGAN, Notes on Trip to Yandmwoka District, i 55 tion, but his dawn notes resemble the foUowing :— Toll-de-lol-fah (the last note long drawn out and of liquid sweetness) ;then twice and quickly repeated in a lower key— You chatterbox ; then in a higher key and with very full, rounded notes, and twicerepeated— Sweet after forty. So charmed was I with the songand appearance of these birds that I determined to secure one totake home with me. Through the kind offices of Mr. Lee Steere,I eventually managed to get one from one of the station hands,and my captive has furnished me with many opportunities of diet I give him is principally that of meat, but he has a dis-tinct hking for oatmeal or pollard paste, and a still greater onefor grapes. For the latter he will leave his meat food at meat when offered is invariably seize
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