Besides these, three or perhaps four groups, though widely distributed throughout the world, arrive in the Australian region at their culmination, presenting an abundance of most varied forms. These are the weaver-birds (Ploceidae), and the moreporks (Podargidae), but especially the kingfishers (Alcedinidae) and the pigeons (Columbidae), the species belonging to the two last obtaining in this region a degree of prominence and beauty which is elsewhere unequalled. [Please select]
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The two extreme points of difference in the Linnæan kingfishers, are seen in the _Alcedo Ispida_, and _A. [Please select]
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About those in Candie Garden I have frequently seen Kingfishers, and they breed about the large ponds in the Vale in Mr. [Please select]
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A pair of white-breasted kingfishers at work during the early stages of nest construction affords an interesting spectacle. [Please select]
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Bank-mynas, white-breasted kingfishers, bee-eaters and a few belated sand-martins are nesting in sandbanks in cavities which they themselves have excavated. [Please select]
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Butcher-birds, rollers and white-breasted kingfishers secure their victims on the ground, dropping on to them silently from their watchtowers. [Please select]
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But outside of the town I saw no kingfishers and no rare species at all, and comparatively few birds of any kind. [Please select]
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--Swallows Kingfishers--sunbirds The cotton-thief Bul-bul--tailor bird--and weaver The mountain jay Crows, anecdotes of III. [Please select]
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All kinds of aquatic birds--pelicans, wild-duck, kingfishers, and the rest--were seen in numerous flocks hovering about the borders of the pools and torrents. [Please select]
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Kingfishers have long, rather stout, pointed bills; wings, long; tail, medium; three toes in front and one behind; middle and outer toes joined for half their length. [Please select]
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