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sentation, a white-cheeked and a yellow-cheeked. 

 The case is parallel with the Black Cockatoos, but 

 the colour is reversed. Our common Rosella has 

 the white cheeks, the yellow being on the western 

 bird. 



Map 72 states that 75 per cent of the Broad-tails 

 are found in area C. 



The Brush-tongued Parrots are the Lories, and 

 they are sugar-eaters. 



Tasmania has no representative of the very beau- 

 tiful Long-tailed Parrots or of the Fig-birds. So 

 far as the latter are concerned Tasmania has no 

 fig forests for them to feed upon, and consequently 

 no inducement for them to come. 



DIAMOND BIRDS IN THE SOUTH 



(Plate 2, Fig. 73) 

 Tree Builders and Bank Builders. 



By Diamond Birds we generally understand the 

 genus Pardalotus. Some of them make nests in 

 hollows of trees ; the spotted species in rounded 

 holes of creek banks. The eggs are white and in- 

 clined to be round, and for so small a bird quite 

 large and numerous. 



The Forty-spotted Diamond Bird is purely Tas- 

 manian, giving preference to the highest timber in 

 the wettest forests, map 73, "a." It is the 

 smallest of the genus and is seen only by one man 

 in a thousand, because of its diminutive size and 

 great distance from the ground. 



