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Identifier: alabamabirddaybo1913alab (find matches)
Title: Alabama bird day book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Alabama. Dept. of Game and Fish Alabama. Dept. of Conservation
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Montgomery, Ala. : Dept. of Game and Fish
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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erts Lyre-bird, the tail is very different, not being lyreform, infact has the outer feathers shorter than the others. The plumageof all is sooty brown above and brownish-ash-color below, withmore or less rufous on the chin, wings and throat. The systematic position of the Lyre-Bird has been much dis-cussed. It was first regarded as a Pheasant, later as a Bird-of-Paradise, and finally has come to be considered as without anyvery close affinities, although in the same respect showing charac-ters intermediate between the Woodpeckers and other passerinegroups. The first and best known species is the Lyre-Bird parexcellence of New South Wales and southern Queensland. It isfound alike in the scrub along the coast and along the mountainsides in the interior, usually being exceedingly shy at all times andunder all conditions. On this point Gould says: While amongthe brushes I have been surrounded by these birds, pouring forthTtheir loud and liquid calls, for days together, without being able
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Alabama, /p13. 17 to get a sight of them, this being rendered the more difficult bytheir often frequenting the most inaccessible and precipitous sideof gullies and ravines, covered with tangled masses of creepersand umbrageous trees; the crackling of a stick, the rolling of asmall stone, or any other noise, however slight, is sufficient toalarm them. They are solitary in their habits, rarely more than apair being seen together, and are constantly wandering throughthe brush. Among the many curious habits is that of formingsmall round hillocks, which are constantly visited during the dayand upon which the male is continually trampling, at the sametime erecting and spreading out his tail in the most graceful man-ner. When alarmed they run through the brush with the greatestrapidity, carrying the tail horizontally. The male is a singer ofno mean attainments, having a variety of calls and notes of hisown, as well as being an expert imitator of the notes of otherbirds and even the howling o

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