SPOTTED PAKDALOTE (DIAMOND-BIRD). 
as in the case oi some other species, differing more from its nearest neighbour 
than the two most widely separated, geographically, forms do. 
I arranged the species in five subspecies thus: 
Pardalotus punctatus punctatus (Shaw and Nodder). 
New South Wales. 
Pardalotus punctatus interjectus Mathews. 
“ Differs from P. p. punctatus in its much paler coloration above and 
below, especially on the mantle, the head being distinctly marked off as a 
cap. (Ringwood) Victoria.” 
East Victoria. 
Pardalotus punctatus xanthopygus McCoy. 
North-west Victoria (Mallee) and South 
Australia. 
Pardalotus punctatus leachi Mathews. 
“ Differs from P. p. punctatus in being darker above and below.” 
Tasmania. 
Pardalotus punctatus whitlocki Mathews. 
“ Differs from P. p. punctatus in being more buffy below and in having 
the rump not so red. Wilson’s Inlet, S.W.A.” 
South-west Australia. 
A little later I added 
Pardalotus punctatus millitaris Mathews. 
“ Differs from P. p. punctatus in being darker above, lighter below, and 
in having a much heavier bill, shorter wing, and a more yellowish vent. Cairns, 
North Queensland.” 
North Queensland. 
These six were included without alteration in my 1913 “ List.” 
Campbell and Barnard, writing from the Cairns distiict, state : “ We 
were greatly surprised to hear the dulcet notes of this pretty Pardalote in the 
tall timber ( eucalypts ) about our camp on the Kirrama tableland. Ramsay 
regarded it as rare here. Not far from ora tent a pair of birds had enlarged 
a hole in a hollow part of a green gum-tree bole, and therein had made a nest. 
The nest was completely composed of fine dry grass, and measured in circum¬ 
ference 12 inches, the side entrance was 1J inches across. There was a full 
set of four eggs. Date 28/10/16. The birds answer to Mathew’s subspecies 
millitaris, from the Cairns district.” 
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