RED-BROWED PARDALOTE. 
with a tinge of red on the former; sides of face, throat, and entire under-surface 
of the body pale yellow, including the thighs and under tail-coverts ; axillaries and 
under wing-coverts silky-white; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown, slightly 
paler on the margins; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface but 
somewhat paler. Culmen brown, remainder of bill white; eyes pale yellow, feet 
and legs leaden-grey. Collected on Parry’s Creek, North-west Australia, on the 
16th of November, 1908. 
Immature male. Crown of head earth-brown with yellowish margins to the feathers and 
a few white feathers with deep black margins ; hind-neck, sides of neck, back, 
scapulars, and lesser upper wing-coverts earth-brown with indications of dark 
shaft-lines on the back; rump and upper tail-coverts dull yellow ; bastard-wing, 
greater-coverts, primary-coverts, and flight-quills blackish with pale margins to the 
feathers, outer-webs of inner primary-quills and primary-coverts fringed with old 
gold-yellow ; tail-feathers pale brown at the base, blackish towards the tips, which 
are fringed with buffy-white ; base of fore-head, lores and a line over the eye pale 
yellow with a slight tinge of red; sides of face, throat, breast, abdomen, thighs, 
and under tail-coverts very pale yellow; axillaries and under wing-coverts silky- 
white ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown, slightly paler on the margins ; 
lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface, but the shafts of the feathers on the 
basal portion are white. Culmen brown, remainder of bill white, eyes pale yellow ; 
feet and legs leaden-blue. Collected on Parry’s Creek, North-west Australia, on 
the 14th of December, 1908. 
Immature female , Crown of the head olive with yellow tips to the feathers which are 
minutely margined with black; back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts 
dull yellow ; lesser upper wing-coverts similar to the back but darker; bastard¬ 
wing and greater upper wing-coverts blackish with w T liite, or buffy-white margins ; 
primary-coverts blackish with orange-yellow edges; flight-quills blackish with 
whitish edges to some of the outer primaries, orange-yellow margins to the 
inner ones and secondaries, the inner webs broadly margined with white; tail- 
feathers pale at the base and blackish on the apical portion where they are fringed 
with white. Feet pinkish (eyes crimson ?), bill horn. Collected at Normanton, 
North Queensland, on the 11th of October, 1913. 
Immature female. General colour of the upper-surface pale olive-grey, including the 
back, scapulars, hind-neck, sides of neck, and crown of the head—the last being 
rather darker than the back with buffy shaft-lines to the feathers ; rump and upper 
tail-coverts ochreous-buff, becoming darker on the long coverts; wings blackish- 
brown with white margins to the feathers of the bastard-wing and some of the 
primary-quills, and pale tips to the secondary-quills ; primary-coverts tipped with 
red ; tail brown at the base, becoming blackish on the apical portion, where some 
of the feathers are marked with white at the tips ; eye-brow and sides of crown 
cream-white ; lores orange-yellow^; middle of breast and middle of abdomen silky- 
white tinged with yellow ; sides of body yellowish-buff ; thighs and under tail- 
coverts buffy-white ; under w r ing-coverts cream-white ; under-surface of flight- 
quills hair-brown margined with buffy-white ; lower aspect of tail similar to its 
upper-surface. Eyes and feet grey. Bill horn. Collected at Normanton, North 
Queensland, on the 5th of November, 1913. 
Pardalotus rubricatus yorki. (Cape York Red-browed Pardalote.) 
Eggs. Three to four eggs form the clutch. A clutch of four eggs taken at Cooktown, 
North Queensland, on the 11th of July, 1899, is pure white. Very rounded ovals in 
shape ; surface of shell fine and slightly glossy. 17-18 mm. by 13-14. 
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