PARDALOTUS. 



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measures:-Length (A) 0-65 x 0-52 inches; (B) o-68 x 0-53 inches; (C) o^ee x 0-52 inches; 

 (D) o'63 X o'52 inches. 



As will be seen from the preceding notes, the normal breeding season is during the latter 

 quarter of the year but extends from July to December, While at the South Australian Museum 

 on the 4th December, 1900, I saw an adult male of this species in the flesh, procured by 

 Mr. Zietz at Golden Square, near Adelaide. Mr. Zietz who was in company with his son, 

 informed me that they had discovered the nesting place, and on digging it out found the nest 

 just completed and ready for eggs. 



The first ecr^s I saw of the Golden-rumped Diamond-bird were in the old National Museum, 

 in the grounds°of the University of Melbourne. They were taken with the birds, by the late 

 Mr. J. H. Nancarrow, in the Bendigo District, Victoria, in 1868, a year after Sir Frederick 

 McCoy had described the species. 



Pardalotus rubricatus. 



FAWN-EYEBROWED DIAMOND-BIRD. 

 Pardalolusr^^hricalus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1837, p. 149 ; id., Bds. Austr,, fol.,Vol. II.,pl. 3G(1848); 

 id., Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. 158 (186.5); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. X., p. 

 60 (1885). 

 Adult MALE-ff6«era? colour above very pale cream,j-hro,m, the feathers on the hind neck with 

 indisHnct dusky edges, and those on the back with narrow dusky shaft lines; the upper tad-coverts 

 distinctly washed with yellow; lesser, median, and innermost greater wing-coverts like the back, the 

 latter ^vith whitish margins around the tip, remainder of the greater coverts brown, edged with white 

 around the tip; primary-coverts blackish, broadly margined e.cternally with rich golden-yellow; qmlls 

 dark brown, externally edged with golden-yellow decreasing in extenton the outermost primaries which 

 are narrowly edged with ivhite except near the base, the secondaries margined with white around the 

 tips, more broadly on the innermost; tail-feathers pale broicn becoming blackish-brotvn towards the tips 

 where they are margined with ivhite, the outermost feathers on either side pale brown; lores whitish, 

 above which is a small spot of dull orange-scarlet; base of forehead and a broad superciliary streak pale 

 fawn-colour, darker on the latter; crown of the head black with a rounded spot of white near the end of 

 each feather; all the under surf ace faint creamy-white tvith a patch of yellow on the centre of the fore 

 neck: the vent and under tail-coverts washed with pale yellow. Total length 4 inches, wing 2-o, tail 

 1:3, bill (>-2S, tarsus OS. 



Adult female — Similar in jjliimai/e to the male. 



Distribution-^onh-^yestevn Australia, Northern Territory of South Australia, Queensland, 

 Western New South Wales, Central Australia. 



rTsS^iF- Fawn-eyebrowed Diamond-bird is widely distributed over the northern half of the 

 L Australian continent. There are specimens in the Australian Museum collection obtained 

 at Dunrobin and Georgetown, in the Gulf District, Queensland, from the neighbourhood of the 

 Victoria River, in the Northern Territory of South Australia, and from Derby, North-western 

 Australia. At the latter locality it appears to be fairly numerous, many specimens being obtained 

 there by Mr. E. J. Cairn and the late Mr.T. H. Bowyer-Bower ; Mr. G. A. Keartland also procured 

 examples near the junction of the Fitzroy and Margaret Rivers and other parts of North-western 

 Australia. Specimens were also obtained by the Horn Scientific Expedition in Central Australia, 

 where on several occasions Mr. C. E. Cowle has found it breeding. Dr. W. Macgilhvray 

 informs me that it is fairly common in the Cloncurry District, Northern Queensland, nesting in 

 sandy banks of creeks and gullies during July and August. The late Mr. George Barnard 



