THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
in New South Wales, and the other exchanged from Somerville. I have 
never taken this form in any of the other states. I also have two specimens 
from New South Wales in which the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh 
primaries have the outer web white as in the South Australian specimens. 
This suggests that there are two very distinct subspecies in New South Wales. 
I noticed that the note of the bird I shot at Adaminaby was quite distinct 
from that of the South Australian and Victorian buds.” 
D’Ombram has recently recorded from The Watercourse, North-west 
New South Wales : “Pardalotes, both red-tipped (P. striatus) and orange-tipped 
(P. assimilis) are fairly plentiful. Their notes were exacf ly alike, but entirely 
different from the similar species of more southern latitudes. The note is 
‘ Chip-chip,’ not * wit-ee-chu,’ as uttered by the red-tipped elsewhere. In 
examining specimens of each w r e noticed that the white outer edge and tip 
was missing in the second primary feather of the orange-tipped, while there 
was only a faint trace of white towards the final third of the similar feather 
in the red-tipped. We do not think this has been recorded before, although 
Dr. W. Macgillivray (Broken Hill) mentions the unequal amount and dis¬ 
tribution of the white margins in the specimens around Coleraine (Vic.). 
These birds, with the same notes, showed (a) red tips, ( b ) reddish-orange tips. 
Probably they are cissiinilis showmg the range of colour in the tips as described 
by Hall in his * Handbook.’ Their nests here are always in trees, and they 
are never known to breed hi tunnels in banks. The writer of this article 
found the red-tipped breeding both in the trees and banks on the Snowy 
River, near Jindabyne (N.S.W.).” 
Captain S. A. White, writing of the Birds of Eyre Peninsula, South 
Australia, observed: “ Pardalotus ornatus was also plentiful, they seemed 
to keep to the big gum country, and were found constructing their beautifully 
formed nests of soft bark and grass in the hollow of a gum limb or bole, a hole 
with a very small entrance being always chosen.” 
Previously Hall had noted from the same locality: “ Specimens showed 
an orange speculum. Years ago, in Western Australia, I secured a skin with 
a yellow speculum. Tibs, in my mind, makes P. ornatus variable in speculum, 
being scarlet, orange or yellow.” 
Capt. S. A. White, writing of a Trip to the Northern End of Flinders 
Range, South Australia, recorded the South Australian Pardalote as “ Common. 
Found only along the gum-tree creeks. Resembles the Central form, P. s. 
finkei (Mathews) very much, but differs in having a darker upper-surface 
and less buff on the rump.” Later, reporting from Lake Victoria and Murray 
River: “ Found all through the district visited. At Lake Victoria they 
had assembled in numbers, and had made their nesting-tunnels into the bank 
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