tail, black; sides of neck and shoulders, buffy-grey; ohm, white; ohest arid Hanks, yellow; rest of 

 uoder-surface, reddish-buff, inclining fco white in the centre of abdomen ; brides, legs, and feet, dark 

 brown ; bill, black. 



I latitats ; All parts, more or less, of Australian continent. 



PARI) A LOTUS MELANOCEPHALUS (Gould). 



B LA CK- 1 1 EA DED DIA MOND- BIRD. 



/QUEENSLAND, and the northern portion of New South Wales, constitute the habitat of the 

 \j species under notice. 



In habits it resembles greatly the Pardalotus Striatus, and like that bird builds its nest in a 

 hole in the trunk of a tree. 



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The crown of the head, lores, and ear-coverts, are black ; above the eye is a line half 

 orange and half white; upper surface, olive-brown; wings, brownish-black; tail, black, tipped with 

 white; throat, chest, and centre of abdomen, bright yellow; vent, and under tail-coverts, buffy-white ; irides, 

 legs, and feet, brown ; bill, black. 



Habitats : Queensland and New South Wales. 



PARDALOTUS AFPINIS (Gould). 



ALLIED DIAMOND-BIRD. 



TI^HIS is one of the commonest of the Tasmanian birds, and is also sometimes found in Victoria and 

 Xew South Wales. 



It frequents both the dense thickets and brushes, and also the more open forests. It obtains 



its food, which consists of seeds, insects, and small berries, among the foliage of trees of all kinds. 



The breeding season lasts from September to the beginning of January, two, and sometimes three,, 

 broods being reared. The nest, in which four or five eggs are laid, is placed in a hole in a tree, 

 and is constructed, in the form of a dome, of various grasses, lined with feathers. The eggs, which are 

 pun- white in colour, are nine lines long by seven lines broad. 



Dissection is the only means of distinguishing the sexes, so much are they alike in outward 

 appearance. 



