11. PARD.iLOTUS. 55 



e' . Back nearly uniform ashy brown, with faint 

 dusky shaft-streaks ; upper tail-coverts 

 washed with yellow; loral spot scarlet; 

 throat creamy white, with a large spot of 

 pale yellow on the fore ueck ; under tail- 

 coverts white ruhricatus, p. CO. 



c. Head uniform black. 



/. Hump yellowish brown or pale earthy brown melanoccpha/us, p. GO. 

 //'. Ibump yellow. . • uropyyiulis, p. (j-2. 



d. Head and back olive, shghtly mottled with 



blackish margins to the feathers ; ear-coverts 



yellow ; no alar speculum qiiadrac/intus, p. G2. 



1. Pardalotus ornatus. 



Pardalotus striatus (nee Gin.*), Tcmm. Man.d^Orn. i. p.G5 (1820). 

 Pardalotus ornatus, Temm. PL Col. iv. pi. .394. fig. 1 (182G). 

 Pardalotus striatus, Vi;/. i$- Horsf. I'rans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 237 



(1850) ; Gould, Handb. B. Ausfy. i. p. 161 (18G.5J ; Grai/, JIand-l. 

 B. i. p. 387, no. 5861 (18GU) ; Bujgles, Orn. Audi: pi. .30. fig. 2 

 (c. 1870) ; Ramsaij, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 180 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above olive-greyish, the lower back and 

 rump clearer and more earthy or yellowish brown, as also the upper 

 tail-coverts, which have paler fulvescent tips with a subtermiual 

 bar of dusky brown ; scapulars like the back, the lower ones washed 

 Avith yellowish brown ; lesser and median wing-coverts greenish 

 black, with yellowish-brown spots at the ends ; greater coverts and 

 primary-coverts black, the latter with scarlet tips, forming an alar 

 speculum ; quills blackish brown, with a white spot at the end, the 

 secondaries paler towards the base and margined oxternaUy with 

 reddish brown, the inner secondaries broadly edged with white along 

 the terminal third of the outer web ; the long primaries externally 

 white near the base, increasing in extent towards the outermost, 

 which has a narrow line of white along the whole of the outer web ; 

 tail-feathers blackish, tipped with white on the outer web, this 

 white spot increasing in extent towards the outermost feather, where 

 it is very large ; crown of head black, forming a cap, the occiput and 

 nape streaked with white down the centre of the feathers ; a broad 

 white eyebrow, with a large spot of bright yellow on the fore part 

 above the lores, which are blackish ; cheeks and ear-coverts ashy 

 white, the feathers below the eye and along the upper edge of the 

 ear-coverts black, minutely spotted with white ; centre of throat 

 and fore neck yellow ; sides of neck pale earthy brown, extending 

 down the sides of the body and flanks, the under tail-coverts also 

 of this colour but paler ; breast and abdomen whitish, with an ashy- 



* Guiehn's species Pipra striatus, founded on Latham's " Striped-headed 

 ]M;inal;in," is diffioult to deteriiiiue ; but it certainly is ?ioi! the above bird. It 

 is probably P. ajjiiiis {vide ivfrii). 



