60 DIO^ID^. 



a. Ad. sk. River Murray. J. Gould, Esq. 



b. Ad. sk. River Murray. Gould Collection. 



c. Ad. ; d, e. Juv. sk. South Australia. Gould Gollectiou. 



/. Ad. sk. Soutk Australia F. D. Godman and 0. 



{Cocherell). _ Salvin, Esqvs [P.]. 



g, h. Imm. sk. South Australia. J. Gould, Esq. 



i. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Collection. 



5. Pardalotus rubricatus. 



Pardalotus rubricatus, OouM, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 149; Gray, Gen. BA. 

 p. 270 (1845) ; Gould, B. Audi: ii. pi. 3G (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. 

 p. 334 (18o0); Beichenb. Vog. Ncuhvll. p. 100 (1850); Gra;/, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 387, no. 5866 ( 1860) ; Bupjlea, Orn. Austr. pi. 30. 

 fig. 1 (1870) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 180 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above pale ashy brown, the feathcra mesially 

 streaked or spotted with dusky, the upper tail-coverta washed with 

 yellow, with narrow brown shaft-lines ; feathers of hind neck 

 narrowly barred with dusky cross lines ; scapulars like the back ; 

 wing-coverts ashy brown, with hoary whitish margins ; greater 

 series and bastard-wing blackish brown, margined with hoary white ; 

 primary- coverts and quills blackish, externally edged with golden 

 yellow, the primaries edged with white towards their ends, the 

 secondaries tipped with white, more broadly on the innermost ; 

 tail-feathers pale brown, becoming darker towards the tips, which 

 are white ; crown of head black, with distinct rounded spots of 

 white ; base of forehead pale fawn-colour ; lores whitish, sur- 

 mounted by a spot of pale scarlet, continued into a broad eyebrow 

 of pale fawn-colour ; ear-coverts ashy, slightly mottled with dusky 

 margins to the feathers ; cheeks, throat, and under surface of body 

 creamy white, washed with sandy brown on the sides of the body ; 

 in the centre of the fore neck and chest a patch of pale yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills pale brown below, 

 whitish along the edge of the inner web: "upper mandible brown, 

 lower mandible greyish white; legs brown" {Gould). Total length 

 4-3 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2*4, tail 1'3, tarsus 0-8. 



Two specimens, apparently younger birds, do not show the dusky 

 spotting on the back and have the yellow chest-spot much smaller. 



Hah. New South Wales and Interior province of Australia, re- 

 appearing in the Gulf of Carpentaria and at Port Darling and Port 

 Essington. 



a, b. Ad. sk. South Australia. Gould Collection. 



c'. Ad. sk. Burke, River Darling Gould Collection. 



{Dr. Pechey). 



d. Ad. sk. [Australia {Cockerell).'] F. D. Godman and 0, 



Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



6. Pardalotus melanoceplialus. 



Pardalotus melanocephalus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 149 ; Grai/, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 270 (1845) ; Gould, B. Austr. fol. ii. p. 165 (1848) ; 



