VOCAL SOUNDS OF BIRDS. 
Apteryx ... 
Bill-snappers 
Bell-birds 
Distant bells 
Bitterns 
Booming 
Blackbirds 
Mimic crowing, besides their 
wild native notes 
Bulbuls 
Babbling 
Bullfinch ... 
Piping 
Cariama ... 
Screaming 
Cassowary 
Bellowing and distant thunder 
Cat-birds ... 
Mocking 
Chatterers 
Chattering 
Crake, Corn 
Craking 
Cranes 
Shouting 
Cuckoo 
Cuckooing — “ coo-koo ” 
Curlew 
Whistling — “ wheep-wheep ” — 
“ corlieu,” or “ courlou ” 
Dhial-bird 
Warbles, and mimics 
Doves 
Cooing 
Ducks 
Whistling 
„ Drakes 
Wheezing 
„ Ducks 
Quacking 
Emu 
Drumming 
Falcons 
Cliaunting 
Finches 
Singing 
Fowls, domestic cocks 
Crowing 
,, „ hens 
Cackling 
Geese 
Hissing 
Gull, Great black-backed 
Haw-hawing 
Hawks 
Screeching 
Kingfishers 
Laughing 
Mynah 
Talking, besides their musical 
call-notes 
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