aurifrons

Updated: May 24, 2025

About February and the beginning of March, the Epthianura tricolor and E. aurifrons, and some of the Parrot tribe, collected in thousands on the creeks, preparatory to migrating to the same point to which the aquatic birds had gone.

Charles Sturt - Expedition into Central Australia

Hylacola pyrrhopygia. cauta, GOULD. Acanthiza pusilla, VIG. and HORSF. uropygialis, GOULD. inornata, GOULD. lineata, GOULD. chrysorrhoea. Epthianura aurifrons, GOULD. tricolor, GOULD. Sericornis frontalis. Pyrrholaemus brunneus, GOULD. Calamanthus campestris.

Edward John Eyre - Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete

One bee, the Trypoxylon aurifrons, builds a nest of clay like a squat round bottle or carafe; generally in rows, one beside the other, on a branch, or in the corners of a building. The melipona bees are the most numerous of the honey-producing insects, their colonies being composed of vast numbers of individuals. They are smaller than the English hive-bee, and have no sting.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Western World: Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North: and South America

It often chooses the walls or doors of chambers for this purpose, and when two or three are at work in the same place, their loud humming keeps the house in an uproar. The cell is a tubular structure about three inches in length. T. aurifrons, a much smaller species, makes a neat little nest shaped like a carafe, building rows of them together in the corners of verandahs.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons