Papuan weapons are the bow and arrow (in the Fly River region, the north and north-east coasts); a beheading knife of a sharp segment of bamboo; a shafted stone club - rayed, disk shaped or ball-headed (in use all over the island); spears of various forms, pointed and barbed; the spear-thrower (on the Finsch coast); and hardwood clubs and shields, widely differing in pattern and ornamentation with the district of their manufacture. [Please select]
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This is a much darker variety of the Red-shafted Flicker, but its nesting habits or eggs do not differ in any way. [Please select]
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Similar to the Red-shafted Flicker, but with the crown darker and the rump a solid pinkish white. [Please select]
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Why is the yellow-shafted flicker of the East replaced in the West by the red-shafted flicker. [Please select]
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A minute after emerging from the tunnel's mouth I caught sight of a red-shafted flicker which went bolting across the narrow valley. [Please select]
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His only weapon was the broad-bladed Saxon spear, ashen shafted, with iron studs along its length below the head. [Please select]
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The friendly White-shafted Fantail is almost as well known, as it flits about a camp or catches flies near some water-course. [Please select]
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The nests of the White-shafted and Rufous Fantails are things of beauty. [Please select]