THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Pardalotus rubricatus leichhardti Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., p. 10, Aug 
2nd, 1913 : Leichardt River, Mid-Queensland ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 256, 1913 
Pardalotus rubricatus musgravi Mathews, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, Vol. XXXVI., p. 91, July 
7th, 1916 : Musgrave Ranges, Central Australia. 
Distribution. Queensland; Northern Territory; North-west Australia as far south 
as Gascoyne River ; Interior of New South Wales and South Australia. An interior 
form reaching out on to the North-west Coast, as many interior forms do • but 
also Cape York ! ’ 
Adult male.. Crown of head and nape deep black with white tips to the feathers • fore¬ 
head, lores, chin, throat, and fore-part of cheeks buffy-white; supraloral streak 
red ; superciliary streak, which extends along the sides of the crown buff; back 
pale brown with dark shaft-streaks and a slight tinge of yellow; rump and upper 
tail-coverts citron-yellow ; upper wing-coverts dark brown, some of the feathers 
slightly edged with white like the bastard-wing; primary-coverts blackish fringed 
with orange; flight-quills dark brown becoming blackish on the secondaries, some 
of the feathers are margined with orange and others with white ; tail black becoming 
paler towards the base and fringed with white at the tip ; sides of face buffy-white 
speckled with black ; middle of breast orange-yellow ; sides of breast and sides of 
body buff ; middle of abdomen inclining to white and tinged with lemon-yellow ■ 
under tail-coverts bright lemon-yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white • 
under-surface of flight-quills greyish-brown with whitish margins ; lower aspect 
of tail also greyish-brown fringed with yellowish at the tip. Eyes yellow, upper 
mandible brown, lower whitish. Total length 92 mm. ; culmen 7, wine 61 tail 29 
tarsus 19. Figured. Collected at Cape York, North Queensland, on the’11th of 
May, 1911, and is the type of P. r. yorlci. 
Adult female similar to the adult male. 
Adult male. Crown of head and nape black with white tips to the feathers; fore-head 
lores, sides of face, and sides of neck buff, slightly speckled with black on the two 
last ; back, rump, and scapulars, ochreous-brown with dark elongated centres to 
some ot the leathers ; upper wing-coverts pale brown on the lesser and median 
series, becoming blackish on the greater series and bastard-wing, both of which 
ar ^n m ^i rgl i n ®f with wllite > primary-coverts black fringed with orange; flight- 
quiils blackish, some of whicli are edged ■with white and others with orange-yellow • 
upper tail-coverts citron-yellow ; tail blackish on the apical portion with pale tips 
to the feathers, becoming paler towards the base; chin, throat, sides of throat, 
sides ot breast, and sides of body buff ; middle of upper breast yellow ; middle of 
lower breast and middle of abdomen inclining to silky-white tinged with yellow; 
under tail-coverts pale yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white; under- 
surtace ot flight-quills pale brown with whitish margins ; lower aspect of tail similar 
to its upper-surface but paler. Eyes yellow, feet and legs pale leaden-blue, bill 
white, culmen brown. Total length 103 mm. ; culmen 7, wing 64, tail 31, tarsus 20. 
x'lo 'j Collected on Parry’s Creek, North-west Australia, on the 24th of November, 
1908, and is the type of P. r. parryi. 
Adult female similar to the adult male. 
Immature 7mle. General colour of the upper-surface dull yellow, the feathers on the crown 
o lie head paler than the back and narrowly edged with black, which imparts a 
scalloped appearance ; rump and upper tail-coverts somewhat paler than the back; 
bastard-wing blackish-brown with whitish margins ; flight-quills blackish-brown, 
wintisli at the tips and inner-margins and old gold-yellow on some of the outer- 
we s , ail-teatliers blackish with pale edges ; lores and a line over the eye yellow 
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