320 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
there takes place would probably mean that the 
seeds, when finally passed, would have had their 
fertility destroyed. The Dicseum has no gizzard, 
but neither have many other small forest-birds. 
I personally first noted this species in the district 
at Anakie on September 23rd, 1900. Mr. Henry 
Lidgett mentions having found a nest at the Werribee 
Gorge on October 24th, 1897, by watching the bird 
collecting cobweb from the trunk of a fallen she-oak, 
and taking it to the outer end of the branch of a small 
black wattle a quarter of a mile away. Twelve days 
later there were three eggs in it, and on November 7th 
he found another nest in the same locality, also with 
three eggs. 
Mr. Mulder has three specimens of this bird, 
obtained several years ago at Fyans' Swamp, Prince's 
Bridge. 
SPOTTED PARDALOTE OR 
WHITTITUKE 
Pardalotus punctatus interjectus 
We have in this district two, if not three, species of 
Pardalote. These are very small birds which, except 
in the nesting-season, spend all the hours of daylight 
prospecting for insects in the leafy twigs of gum-tree 
boughs, and are, therefore, but little noticed by a 
casual observer. 
They are all beautiful little creatures, but I think 
the Spotted Pardalote is the prettiest. The male 
