50 PAEDALOTINS!. 



^ PARDALOTUS XANTHOPYGIUS, McCoy. 



Yellow-rumped Diamond-bird. 



Oould, Suppl. Bds. Aust., pi. 8. 



This beautiful little Pardalote, the last discovered of the family- 

 is dispersed over the southern portions of the Australian continent. 

 It gives a decided preference for the Mallee country and scrubby 

 tracts of land ; in Victoria it is found rather plentifully in the 

 Whipstick scrub near Sandhurst, and parts of the Wimmera 

 district. It excavates a tunnel about two feet in length, in a bank 

 or in the side of a slight depression of the earth, at the 

 extremity of which it builds a nest of strips of bark and dried 

 grasses ; the eggs are four in number for a sitting, pearly-white, 

 rounded in form and slightly pointed at one end, a set taken 

 during November 1883, in the Whipstick scrub, Sandhurst, 

 measure as follows : — length (A) 0-65 x 0-5 inch ; (B) 0-66 x 0-52 

 inch ; (0) 0-65 x 52 inch; (D) 0-64 x 0-51 inch. 



Hah. New South "Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, 

 West and South- West Australia. {Bamsay.) 



^^- PARDALOTUS ORNATUS, Temminch. 



(P. striatus, Vigors and Horsfield.) 

 Striated Pardalote. 

 Gould, Handhk. Birds Aust, Vol. i., sp. 84, p. 161. 



" During my first visit to Cardington, on the Bell River, in the 

 Molong district, I was much surprised and delighted at finding 

 this beautiful species of Pardalote in that neighbourhood. My 

 brother, Mr. James Ramsay, informed me at the time, that this 

 bird arrived every year about the beginning of October, and would 

 shortly begin to breed. This I found to be the case. In the 

 course of a few weeks they took possession of their usual breeding 

 places, a batch of old nests of the Fairy Martin ( Lagenoplastes 

 aa-iel). These they lined with grass and stringy-bark maiking a 

 nest similar to that of Pardalotus punctatus. The eggs varied 



