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STRIATED PARDALOTE. 
under-parts of the bird are yellowish, growing very pale near the vent; 
under tail-coverts are buff-colour; the tail black, very short; the outer 
feather tipped with white ; legs dusky. 
“This is in the possession of Sir Joseph Banks." 
I have reproduced these descriptions because Gould used striatus as of 
Temminck for the New South Wales form and rejected Gmelin’s name as 
to the Tasmanian form, which he had named Pardalotus affinis, citing in his 
synonymy: 
- “ Pipra striata (?) Gmel. et Auct. 
“ Striped-headed Manakin, Shaw, Gen. Zool., Vol. X., p. 29, pi. 4,” 
and observing: 
“ The Pardalotus affinis is distinguished by the yellow tips of its spurious 
wings, and by the margin of the third primary only being white. The bird 
figured by Shaw and Latham, as quoted above, has, in all probability, 
reference to the present species, but not, in my opinion, to the Pipra striata 
of Grnelin, whose description does not agree with the Tasmanian bird, or with 
any of those from New South Wales ; he distinctly states that the tips of 
some of the wing-coverts are yellow, and that the spurious wing is tipped 
with white, and, moreover, adds that it is a native of South America.” 
Gmelin’s description as pointed out is simply a translation of Latham’s 
which Gould admits might be referable, and the locality given by Gmelin 
is purely suppostitious as my quotations show. 
This was rectified by Latham himself in the First Supplement to the 
General Synopsis of Birds, 1787, p. 188, where he vTote : “I have been 
hitherto at a loss for the native place of this bird. Mr. Anderson’s papers 
inform me that it is a native of Van Diemen’s Land. I think it not an 
improbable supposition, that the Brown Shrike {Gen. Synops. Birds, Vol. J., 
p. 191) may be the other sex of this species.” 
As the Brown Shrike was described from a specimen in the British Museum, 
and Latham’s account was latinised by Gmelin as Lanius fuscus, which is 
earlier than any other Pardalote name, I reprint Latham’s account: “ Size 
of a Manakin. Bill horn-colour, with a black tip ; the upper parts of the 
plumage brown, beneath white; between the bill and the eye yellowish; 
secondaries tipped with yellovdsh, and the edges of the greater quills of the 
same colour, forming two narrow bars on the wings ; legs black. Place 
unknown.” As Latham drew up this account from a specimen itself his 
opinion must be considered, but it does not seem applicable to a Pardalote, 
the two yellow v r ing-bars being foreign to the group. 
The next complication after Gould’s affinis appeared when Ramsay 
drew up his “ List ” in 1878, when he included Pardalotus striatus, affinis 
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