STRIATED PARDALOTE. 
of a washout. Upon comparison it is found that the Murray bird is much darker 
than the northern bird (true Pardaloiinus striatus ornatus), and the tips of the 
spurious wing-feathers are orange, while those of the northern bird are crimson.” 
Air. Tom Carter has written me: “ The Westralian Pardalote (P. striatus 
westraliensis) is a common bird throughout the south-west of West Australia. 
Nests containing eggs were never found, but on Dec. 29th, 1911, I watched 
the parent birds feeding young birds in the nest, which was built inside a 
knot-hole, on the trunk of a dead Blue Gum-tree near Albany, which stood 
on the edge of a running brook. The hole was about fifteen feet above the 
ground. Dec. 11th, 1902. Young birds were noted in a nest in a tree 
hanging over Vasse River about twenty feet above the water.” 
Milligan wrote about the Margaret River district, South-west Australia: 
“ Not many of these birds were observed, and those that were appeared to 
confine themselves to the ‘ red-gum ’ country. I observed a pair passing in 
and out of a small hole of a red gum-tree, in which they evidently were nesting.” 
Erom the Stirling Ranges he added : “ Common in the ‘ white-gum 5 country. 
One of my perplexities was in regard to Pardalotus ornatus. At several 
places in the ‘ marlock ’ clumps we obtained specimens, each of which 
possessed orange-yellow head spots. Usually spots of that colour are taken 
as an external distinguishing sex mark, but it could be scarcely possible that 
every bird we shot should prove to be of the same sex.” 
Alexander, reporting upon the Birds of Bremer Bay, recorded : “ Seen 
several times, but the individuals were very pale in colour, and seemed to 
me to belong to a different race from those found near Perth. They may, 
however, have been young birds.” Of Perth, Alexander wrote: “ Resident. 
A plentiful species throughout the district.” 
Ashby recorded it as “ common at Claremont and Watheroo,” wliile 
Captain S. A. White, who visited the Margaret River district, concluded: 
“ This bird is identical with the South Australian bird. The writer fails to 
see the slightest variation,” but did not say with what locality South Australian 
birds he compared them. 
Gould wrote: “ P. affinis is distributed over every part of Tasmania, 
and may be regarded as the commonest bird of the island ; wherever the gum 
and wattle exist, there also may the bird as certainly be found; giving no 
decided preference to trees of a high or low growth, but inhabiting alike the 
sapling and those which have attained their greatest altitude. It displays 
great activity among the branches, clinging and creeping about in the most 
easy and elegant manner, examining both the upper and under sides of the 
leaves with the utmost care in search of insects. It is equally common in 
all the gardens and shrubs, even those in the midst of the towns, forming a 
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