STRIATED PARDALOTE. 
uttered a nesting call resembling ‘ You did, tyou did,' with the accent hard 
on the last syllable. This call is repeated many times as if to clinch an 
argument, and is used principally when the hen bird is sitting.” 
Mr. E. E. Howe wrote: “ P. ornatus is one of the commonest birds in 
the Mallee and as many as three nests were noticed in one tree at Pine Plains 
during Sept., 1907. At Kow Plains we found many nests containing eggs 
and young. Both male and female help to build the nest. At Ringwood 
P. assimilis occurs, P. ornatus being only seen occasionally.” 
Mr. A. G. Campbell’s notes read: “ Pardalotus ornatus arrives in North¬ 
east Victoria each year before the end of August, staying during the breeding 
season and leaving again in April. It usually nests in hollows of trees, but 
on the sandy banks of the Murray near Wahgumgah some tunnel their nesting 
holes. Pardalotus assimilis in Victoria only occurs south of the Dividing 
Range and then only east of the longitude of Melbourne. P. ornatus occurs 
throughout the remaining three-quarters of the State. Both species are 
semi-migratory, leaving for the winter.” 
Of Kangaroo Island, A. G. Campbell wrote: “ On the scrub-covered 
moorlands a few very stunted gum trees were found, some of them not more 
than six feet in height. They were covered with grotesque galls and insect 
ridden. In nearly every patch one of these little birds could be disturbed. 
It differs somewhat from Victorian specimens in markings. Those from the 
north-east of the State are much richer than those from the north-west. 
They have the lower back and rump rufous instead of olive, and further have 
the tops of all the primaries white. The Kangaroo Island specimens have 
one character of each. They are olive coloured in the mantle like the birds 
from North-west Victoria, but have all the tips of the primaries white, like 
the north-eastern forms.” 
Captain S. A. White writes : “ P. striatus is a bird with a great range 
and there is little apparent variation from Queensland to Western Australia, 
and I have met with it all over Central Australia. The note is distinctive 
and is a double note repeated quickly. A very lively bird, hopping about 
amongst the gum foliage in a very sprightly manner and its flights straight 
and rapid. The nest is placed in dead limbs and lined with dry grass ; some 
of the nests are very neatly and compactly made.” 
Air. Edwin Ashby has written me: “I have four specimens, three 
collected by myself and the other exchanged, of the iorm we have always 
referred to as assimilis, with the white outer web of the third primary only. 
They were collected, one at Adaminaby, near the Snowy Mountains, Southern 
New South Wales ; one from the Macanally Range further north, one from 
Emmaville in the high New England country near the Queensland border 
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