Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Anglo - Australian name of the shrikes of the genus Pardalotus, as P. punctatus: so called from the marking of the plumage.
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Out of forty perchers eleven are missing — yellow oriole, yellow fig-bird (SPHECOTHERES), black-backed magpie, black-headed diamond-bird, helmeted friar-bird, silver-eye, and the blue, pied, shining, white-eared and spectacled flycatchers.
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