11. PAEDALOTrS. 57 



commence further down on the crown and nearer to the black fore- 

 head. This is also a secondary character of P. affi,nis. 



Hah. From Port Denison to liew South Wales, and the interior 

 of Australia. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. Sir T. Mitchell. 



h, c. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Collection. 



d. Ad. sk. Kew South Wales. Gould Collection. 



e. Ad. sk. Burke, Iliver Darling Gould Collection. 



{Br. Pecherj). 



f. Ad. sk. Queensland {Cockerell) , F. D. Godman and 0. Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.J. 



g. Ad. sk. Queensland. F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Pardalotus affinis. 



? Striped-headed Manak-in, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 526 (1783). 

 ? Pipra striata, Gm. S. N. i. p. 1003 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 558 



(1790) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. x. pt. l,p. 29, pi. 4 (1817). 

 Parda'jtus atBnis, Goidd, P.Z. S. 1837, p. 2.5; id. Si/n. B. Austr. 



p^-.t 2, pi. iii. fipr. 2 (1837) ; id. B. Austr.iol. ii. pi. 39 (1848) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 270 (1845) ; Retchenb. Voy. NeiihoU. p. 104 (1850) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 334 (1850) ; G<mld, Handb. B. Aiisfr. i. p. 103 



(1865) ; Gray,irai}d-l. B. i. p. 387, no. 5802 (1869) ; Digyles, Orn. 



Austr. pi. 30. fig. 3 (c. 1870) ; Ramsay, Pruc. Linn. Sue. X. S. IF. 



ii. p. 180 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above ashy olive, becoming pale earthy 

 brown on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-covcrts, the latter 

 being edged with pale ochreous buff ; lesser aud median wing-coverta 

 black, with spots of pale earthy brown at the tips ; greater coverts, 

 bastard-wing, and primary-coverts black, the latter tipped with 

 yellow, forming an alar speculum ; qtiills black, tipped with a white 

 spot at the end of the outer web ; the inner secondaries externally 

 reddish brown, becoming white towards the end of the otiter web ; 

 the third primary only edged with white along the outer web ; tail- 

 feathers black, all but the centre ones with a white spot at the end 

 of the inner web, increasing in extent towards the outermost ; crown 

 of head black, unifomi on the forehead and over the eve, the re- 

 mainder of the crown and nape broadly streaked with white down 

 the centre of the feathers ; over the eye a broad streak of yellow, 

 continued into an eyebrow of ashy white ; lores blackish ; ear- 

 coverts mottled, blackish with mesial streaks of ashy white ; cheeks 

 ashy whitish ; throat and fore neck bright yellow ; breast and re- 

 mainder of under surface ashy whitish with a faint yellowish tinge ; 

 sides of neck, sides of body, and flanks pale earthy brown, separated 

 from the breast by a broad line of yellow ; under taU-coverts clearer 

 buff or pale earthy brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale 

 earthy brown ; quills dusky below, ashy whitish along the edge of 

 the inner web : " bill black ; feet brown ; iris olive-brown " (Gould). 

 Total length 4-3 inches, culmen 0"3, wing 2-65, tail 1-45, tarsus 

 0-75. 



Hab. Tasmania, I^ew South Wales, Tictoria, and South Australia. 



