THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
familiar and pleasing object, and enlivening the scenery with its sprightly 
actions and piping, though somewhat monotonous, note. Its food consists 
of seeds, bud 3 , and insects, in procuring which its most elegant actions are 
brought into play. I was formerly led to believe that the Allied Diamond- 
Bird was strictly confined to Tasmania and the islands in Bass’s Straits, but 
I have lately seen specimens from Victoria and New South Wales.” 
Mr. Frank Littler has written me : “ Very plentiful in places, may be 
seen flitting about the scrub in small flocks. May be found in both scrubby 
and open country throughout Tasmania.” 
Mellor and White record it from Flinders Island as: “ Numerous. Met 
with in the big timber and scrub country alike.” 
A. G. Campbell included it in his list of the Birds of King Island and also that 
he had shot a specimen in Victoria, thus confirming Gould’s record above quoted. 
Mr. J. P. Rogers wrote: “At Mungi the two northern species (P. 
uropygialis and P. rubricatus) were replaced by two others, one a form of 
P. rubricatus and one of the group with white streaks on the hinder crown. 
This new bird has similar habits to P. rubricatus, only the note is much shorter 
and sharper than that of the other two species. It is not very numerous 
and I had difficulty in distinguishing it from P. rubricatus in the field unless 
I got very close up ; tliis is the first time I have seen this species.” The most 
northern record of P. striatum is Mungi. 
Gmelin described Pipra striata as follows : 
“ P. subtus flavescens, capite superiore nuchaque nigris, singulis pennis 
per longitudinem stria alba notatis, remigibus atris ; tertia brevissima. 
“ Striped-headed Manaldn. Lath. syn. II. 2, p. 526, n. 11, t. 54. Habitat 
in America australi. 
“ Longitudo 41 pollicum; rostrum fuscum ; inter hoc et oculos macula 
flava ; cervix et dorsum ex fuscescente cinerea ; tectrices alarum fuscescentes, 
nonnullae apice flavae; alae spuriae apice albae; cauda nigra perbrevis; 
rectricibus lateralibus apice albis; pedes atri.” 
This is merely a Latin rendering of Latham’s description which reads: 
“ Length four inches and a half. Bill brown; crown of the head and nape 
black, with a stripe of white down the shaft of each feather; hind part of the 
neck and back of a brownish ash colour, inclining to olive near the rump; 
between the bill and eye a deep yellow spot; the wing-coverts are brownish; 
the bastard wings tipped with white, and some of the outer coverts tipped 
with yellow, making an oblique mark near the outer edge of the wing; the 
quills dusky; the third shorter in proportion than any of the others, being 
a quarter of an inch shorter than the second, though all the others are of the 
usual length (this is a characteristic, as I observed it in both wings); the 
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