48 PARDAIiOTINa!. 



It builds a round, and almost flat, scanty nest of roots and 

 grasses — through which the eggs, in some situations, can be seen 

 from below — in every possible position, both in the indigenous 

 and acclimatized trees of our public parks and gardens. In 

 Albert Park I have found noless than ten nests, each containing 

 eggs, in a single row of Pines (Pinus insignus) of about fifty yards 

 in length ; the trees at that time being of a uniform height of five 

 feet ; at other times the nest is placed in the horizontal fork of the 

 branches of the Eucalyptus or Acacia, the broad flat fronds of the 

 Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria excelsa), and on two occasions I 

 have found it in the leafy top of a rose bush. The eggs are three in 

 number, usually of a buffy-white ground colour, blotched and 

 freckled all over with light brown, and umber brown markings, 

 particularly towards the larger end, occasionally one egg in a set 

 is found of a dull-white ground colour, with a well defined zone of 

 dark umber round the larger end. The measurements of a set 

 taken at Albert Park in December 1870, are as follows : — length 

 (A) 0-9 X 0-7 inch ; (B) 0-9.5 x 0-7 inch ; (C) 0-93 x 0-97 inch. 



ITab. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence 

 Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria arid South 

 Australia. {Ramsay.) 



Family PARDALOTIN-ZE. 



Genus PARDALOTUS, Vieillot. 



*• PARDALOTUS PUNCTATUS, Temminck. 



Spotted Diamond Bird. 



Gould, Sandbk. Bds^ Aust., Vol. i., sp. 81, p. 157. 



The Spotted Pardalote or Diamond-bird is common in all parts 

 of New South Wales, and plentifully dispersed over the whole of 

 eastern and southern portions of the continent. 



