THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Pardalotus xanthopygus McCoy, Annals Mag. Nat. Hist.., Ser. 3, Vol. XIX., p. 184, March 
1 st, 1867 : North-west Victoria ; id., ib., Vol. XX., p. 177, 1867 ; Gould, Birds 
Austr., Suppl., pi. 8 , pt. iv., Dec. 1 st, 1867; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 180, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., Vol. X., p. 59 , 1885 ; Ramsay 
Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 3, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 46, 1899; Campbell! 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 445, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus’. Spec. Cat! 
No. 1, Vol. II., p. 227, 1907 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 91, 1908; Howe, 
Emu, Vol. VIII., pp. 133-137, 1909 (Vic.) ; A. G. Campbell, ib., Vol. IX., p. 22 , 1909 
(Review); Howe, ib., p. 233, 1910 (Vic.); S. A. White, ib., Vol. XII., pp. 5 - 7 , 
1912 (S.A.); Wilson, ib., p. 38 (Vic.); Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII.. p. 43 , 1913 (Vic.).’ 
Pardalotus leadbeateri Ramsay, Ibis, 1867, p. 255, April 1st; for same as preceding- 
N.W. Victoria. 
Pardalotus punctatus punctatus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 389, 1912- id 
List Birds Austr., p. 255, 1913. 
Pardalotus 'punctatus interjectus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 389, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
(Ringwood) Victoria ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 255, 1913 ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, 
p. 320, 1914. 
Pardalotus punctatus xanthopygus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 389, 1912; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 255, 1913. 
Pardalotus punctatus leachi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 389, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
Tasmania ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 255, 1913. 
Pardalotus punctatus whitlocki Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 389, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
Wilson’s Inlet, South-west Australia; id ., List Birds Austr., p. 256, 1913. 
Pardalotus punctatus millitaris Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 96, Sept, 
18th, 1912: Cairns, Queensland; id., List Birds Austr., p. 255, 1913; Campbell 
and Barnard, Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 30, 1917. 
Distribution. Eastern Australia from Cairns, North Queensland, New South Wales, 
Victoria, through South Australia to South-west Australia and Tasmania. 
Adult male. Crown of head black with a white spot at the tip of each feather; nasal 
bristles black; lores and a superciliary line whitish ; sides of face and cheeks 
grey minutely barred with white like the sides of the neck ; hind-neck blackish with 
pale subapical spots and dusky-grey bases to the feathers; back similar but the 
subapical spots larger ; scapulars olive-grey very narrowly fringed with black at 
the tips ; wings black marked with white at the tips of the feathers; inner webs 
of flight-quills blackish-brown margined with white; rump and short upper tail- 
coverts dark chestnut, some of the feathers very slightly fringed with black; the 
long ones tipped with red ; tail black w ith a subapical spot of white on each feather; 
chin, throat, and fore-neck yellow like the under tail-coverts ; breast, abdomen, 
sides of body, flanks and thighs dull fawm-colour; axillaries similar but paler; 
under wing-coverts white ; under-surface of flight-quills greyish-browm margined 
YY'itli white ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface. Bill black, feet 
fleshy. Total length 87 mm. ; culmon 6, wing 59, tail 29, tarsus 17. Figured. 
Collected at Ringwood, Victoria, on the 24th of July, 1909, and is the type of 
P. p. interjeclus. 
Adult female. Crown of head dusky with buffy-Yvhite spots at the tips of the feathers, 
all of which are margined with black; hind-neck and back drab-grey with buff 
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