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Sides Of Face Orange: Range: Widely distributed over interior of Australia and island of Tasmania
Description: Male: General color dusky gray; large white patch on each wing; fore part of head, sides of face, throat, and crest lemonyellow; tip of crest feathers brown; ear coverts bright orange; sides of crown white; tail fairly long, central feathers projecting beyond rest; bill dark horn color; eyes brown; female: similar to male but wing patches smaller and less pure white; orange cheek patch present but lemon and white areas absent from head; length 13% inches
Habitat: Feeds on ground in flocks; always perches on dead limbs of trees where difficult to see; will not perch on limbs with leaves.
Description: Male and female similar; back, wings, and breast down to belly, green; neck all around and chest golden-yellow; throat and sides of face orange; crown of head olive-brown; forehead bright tomato-red; upper tail coverts cobalt-blue; tail with indistinct sub-terminal bar sky-blue; tips and base of inner webs of outer feathers brownish red; bill scarlet; length 5% inches.
CITRANGE, sit'nmj, a hybrid of the trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata) and the sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). The trifoliate orange is a hardy ornamental, with sour, inedible fruit, used as rootstock on which to bud the more tender citrus varieties; the sweet orange is the popular orange of commerce. |
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