| A wig that seemed to be woven out of gray wire was set over a red, pouchy face, whose multiple chins hung over his neckcloth like wattles. |
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| You won't see a lot of everlastings but the bush flowers are appearing like varieties of banksias and wattles. |
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| The birds become lethargic, with a staggered gait, their feathers are ruffled, and the comb and wattles turn dark red or blackish. |
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| Supra-orbital combs and wattles are fairly common in gallinaceous birds, but they also occur in other taxonomically unrelated bird families. |
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| Until now the only trees he has seen are wattles and eucalypts, which don't merit a compliment. |
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| Chickens may die without showing any symptoms, but typically, birds suddenly show swelling about the eyes, wattles and ear lobes. |
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| Some species have a prominent head casque, wattles or bare heads and necks with brightly colored skin. |
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| Male asities enlarge their wattles when they display to females and their outer primary feathers produce a buzzing sound when they fly. |
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| Its cousin, the stunning kokako, is slate gray with sky-blue wattles decorating a black-masked face. |
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| Some cracids have brightly colored skin on the face or neck, or ornaments such as wattles, casques or combs. |
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| These plants include eucalypts and tea-trees, banksias and grevilleas, boronias, native fuchsias, wattles and peas. |
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| Resplendent in bright orange, black and red, his comb, wattles and ear lobes have been shorn off. |
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| Most Australian wattles lose these true leaves as they grow, and develop instead the leaf-like organ called a phyllode. |
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| In the spring, the male attracts females by gobbling, puffing his feathers, spreading his tail, swelling his face wattles, and drooping his wings. |
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| Dry-sclerophyll forests have a canopy between 10 metres and 30 metres tall, and generally have a hard-leaved understorey with wattles, peas and boronias. |
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| Quick-growing wattles and eucalypts spread through the country for a multitude of uses on farms, mines, and railways and became a mark of habitation. |
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| I will not mention all of them, but a lot of native species, eucalypts, wattles, and quite a number of exotic softwoods and hardwoods, are suitable. |
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| This area is now open ground liable to be overtaken by weeds and wattles. |
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| Males have a large caruncle, or fleshy protuberance, on the forehead and top of the beak, and turkeylike neck wattles. |
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| The pavilions will house plants from temperate regions of the southern hemisphere such as passion flowers, camellias, banksias, tea trees and wattles. |
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| Combs and wattles are cyanotic and oedematous, and may have petechial or ecchymotic haemorrhages at their tips. |
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| Why were they being forcibly removed to areas with nothing but rows of tin latrines, where only wattles grew in the sand? |
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| Sculptured, fleshy wattles on the faces of male pheasant and grouse are often coloured a bright blue or red. |
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| For botany lessons, we crossed the road into the botanical gardens, there to examine the leaves of ash, oak, elm, plane, pine but no wattles, gums or banksias. |
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| Like all wattles it's fast-growing and flowers from August to October, but a distinguishing feature is its foliage which smells of cinnamon when crushed in warm weather. |
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| Expression of combs and wattles is directly connected to androgen production, whereas feather ornament size seldom depends on current levels of testosterone secretion. |
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| It seems that the males have taken advantage of the females' searching for these by having bright blue and red wattles hanging from their throats. |
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| Similar to the colours of our flag, with blue feet, white plumage and meat, red comb and wattles, Bresse chicken is a national 'symbol' of quality. |
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| For this style of panel, weaving is too difficult, so the wattles run horizontally and are known as ledgers. |
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| This style does require wattles to be woven for better support of the daub. |
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| This effectively restricts the name Acacia to the group of largely Australian wattles, by excluding its use for the widespread tropical true acacias. |
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| These details best suit the Hill Myna, one of the most colourful black, with bright yellow wattles, orange-yellow bill. |
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| They must be placed with sufficient gaps to weave the flexible horizontal wattles. |
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| And keep your chin up, or your wattles up, or whatever! |
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| To insert wattles in a square panel several steps are required. |
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| The barbel, so called by reason of his barbs, or wattles in his mouth. |
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