THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
and assimilis Ramsay, characterising the last named in a footnote reading: 
“ Tips of spurious wings always orange-red, never yellow as in P. affinis ,” 
and starring the range columns under “ Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence River Districts, New South Wales and Interior.” 
At a later meeting of the Linnean Society of New South Wales he exhibited 
examples recording that it was found “ breeding in New South Wales in large 
numbers.” According to this the type locality would be New South Wales, 
as he was simply naming the bird with red tips but with the margin of third 
primary only white. 
Hall then pursued the matter of these three “ species ” and suggested 
that as birds like “ assimilis ” were found in Victoria and were intermediate 
in their characters between the New South Wales “ ornatus ” and the 
Tasmanian “ affinis ,” the three were all forms of one species. 
This view was discussed without much definite conclusions, so that in 
1912 I carefully criticised the whole of the available material, and in my 
“ Reference List ” stated my conclusions thus : “ After the examination of long 
series of Pardalotes I have been compelled to ignore the white edgings to the 
primaries and the coloration of the tips of the coverts, as I consider them of 
no primary importance, as specimens from localities adjacent gave different 
results. I could only conclude that we had three species living in the same 
locality and differing only 7 ' in the most minute manner, and many subspecies 
of each one ; or by elimination conclude that one species only existed, with 
eight (or nine) subspecies. I chose the latter alternative, and have based 
my diagnosis upon general coloration alone, leaving out of consideration 
altogether the coloration of the tips of the coverts. I may here remark, however, 
that P. s. striatus seems to have constantly yellow tips to the coverts, P. s. 
assimilis mainly orange, though throughout New South Wales, South Australia, 
and Victoria this colour may bo rarely found; while in West Australia I have 
not yet seen any other colour than red.” 
The subspecies admitted were 
Pardalotus striatus striatus (Gmelin). 
Tasmania. 
Pardalotus striatus kingi Mathews. 
“ Differs from P. s. striatum in being uniform grey above. King Island.” 
King Island, Bass Straits. 
Pardalotus striatum assimilis Ramsay. 
Queensland. 
Pardalotus striatus ornatus Temminck and Laugier. 
New South Wales. 
Pardalotus striatus substriatus Mathews. 
