Drawn by Alice M. Cook.



THE DIAMOND BIRD (*7 ^ardalotus punclatus).


“ The Diamond Bird, or Pardalote, which must not be confounded with the much

larger Diamond Sparrow, is one of our prettiest little assistants. The plaintive call notes,

one high and one low, uttered by the cock and hen bird i espectively, are often heard. The

nest is in a hole in a sloping bank, and one wonders how such a tiny bird can excavate

such a burrow.”— Dr. A. S. La Soulf on Garden Birds in Sydney.


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