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Identifier: handbookofbirdso00litt (find matches)
Title: A handbook of the birds of Tasmania and its dependencies
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Littler, Frank Mervyn
Subjects: Birds -- Australia Tasmania
Publisher: Launceston, Tasmania : F.M. Littler
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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preceding species. It frequents thesame class of country, and is sociable in its habits, for it may oftenbe seen feeding in the gum-trees with the )\Iusk and Swift Lori-keets. Owing to this sociable habit its presence is often over-looked in a district. In addition to feeding on honej from theeucalypt blossoms, it may often be seen performing strange anticsamong the branches of the ))arasitical Loranthvs, as it feeds on theberries. Like all Lorikeets it favours well-timbered tracts, movingfrom one belt of eucalypts to another, as they come out into blossom. FAMILY-CACATUID/E (4 species). Sub- Family— Cacatuinae. *BLACK COCKATOO (Calyptorhynclius fiinerens, Shaw). Male.—Brownish-black, slightly glossed with green; feathers of upper back and wings narrowly margined with brown tinged with olive; ear coverts dull yellow; tail darker than back; all the feathers save the two centre ones pale yellow, irregularly freckled with black on inner webs for basal two-thirds; extreme tips of all
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EUCALYPT BARK RIPPED BY BLACK COCKATOOS. Photo, by A. H. E. Mattisgley. From The Emu. BIRDS OF TASMANIA. 91 feathers brovvuish-olive ; under surface slightly browuer than upper;feathers of chest and breast edged with brownish-olive; abdomenmore or less tinged with olive; bill black; legs and feet brownish-black. Dimensions in mm.:—Length, 590; bill, 48; wing, 375;tail, 23.5; tarsus, 28. Female.—Similar to male. Young.—Ear coverts bright yellow; feathers of under surfacesomewhat broadly marked with yellow; yellow on tail heavilyfreckled with brown; bill whitish, tipped with black. Nest.—Within a hole in the truidv of a lofty tree, usually farremoved from civilization. Eggs.—Clutch two; roundish oval in shape ; texture coarse; sur-face slightly glossy; colour white. Dimension in inches of an oddexample, according to Mr. A. J. Campbell:—1.9 x 1.5. Breeding Season.—I can neither find any record nor hear ofany eggs being taken prior to the end of December. Geographical Distri

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