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striking manner. Where mistletoe was plentiful, as for instance at Sunday Island, 
it was very common. The bird lived on the red berries of the mistletoe, and the 
part he played for the spreading of this plant is clear enough from the fact that I 
could count as many as to 15 tufts of mistletoe in one tree. I also observed the 
details of how this spreading goes on. Once a bird passed two mistletoe-berries 
through the anus. They were pasted together by a viscous substance belonging to 
the seed-coat, which thus prevented them from falling down to the ground. They 
remained instead on the branch, where the bird was sitting, slid down a little and 
stuck on the bark. 
Fig. 23. The mistletoe and its berries (drawing by the author). 
In Dampier land (Beagle bay) where the bird was much more rare I noticed 
that the mistletoe was also conspicuously scarce. 
Pardalotus rubricatus parryi MaATtH. 
Math. handl. n:r 728. J juv. Mowla Downs, Kimb. ?5/,1 1910, moult. 
Juvenal. — Crown of the head as in adults. The loral spot not scarlet but 
yellow-orange. The belly yellowish, the sulphur patch on the breast small. Bill 
bright. Iris yellow. Moulting (back). 
Evidently a young male that is about to get the plumage of the adults. 
Was not common round Mowla Downs. 
