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Title: Protected native birds of South Australia
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Duffield, Thomas
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Adelaide : Rogers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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of the head are brownish grey, owingto a brown streak down the centre of each grey feather. Around eacheye is a light ring. The back of the neck and the back are dark brown.The rump is grey, and the tail feathers of a darker grey. The feathersin the wings are dark, with lighter grey edges. The white on the throatmerges into grey over the chest, each feather having a faint brown streakdown the centre. The abdomen is nearly white. Habitat.—This sweet-voiced bird is well distributed over the State, both in thescrub land and open country. Food.—Its food is chiefly insectivorous, and often consists of caterpillars. Nest.—The nest is cup shaped, and built of bark and line twigs. Sometimes thenest is built in a prong of a bough, but is often placed in the hollow atthe end of a broken limb. Eggs.—The number varies from three to four. They are pearly white to salmonpink in color, and ornamented with faint light-brown spots and blotchesof bluish grey. The egg measures about IJin. x fin.
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BVfY DEPT. *DF lARMONlOUS SHRIKE THRUSH fColluricincIa harmonica). Ai.nu! hi:!/ in,-.lire. DESCRIPTIONS OF OUR NATIVE BIRDS. 19 BLUE DOVE, or BLACK-FACED GRAUCALUS. (Graucalus melanops)—^owWs Hand Book. (Coracina robusta)—A/frfAews Hand List. 8iZE.—This bird is about the size of a pigeon, being (juite 12in. in length when full jrown. Bill.—The bill is leaden grey to black. Feet and Legs.—Both feet and legs are colored leaden grey to black Plumage.—The forehead, sides of the face, and throat are jet black. The blackon the throat shades off through grey on the chest to white on the abdomen.The crown and back of the head, the back, and rump are a delicateslaty grey. The large wing feathers are nearly black, and edged withgrey. The tail feathers, with the exception of the two middle ones,are tipped with white. Habitat.—These birds prefer open country, where the trees are large. Food.—The graucalus Uves chiefly upon large insects, such as mantids, phasniids,and grubs. It is

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