RED-BROWED PARDALOTE. 
the Leichhardt a Red-browed Pardalote was flushed from its burrow, 
containing a nearly completed nest on the 16th June. Both tins species 
and P. uropygialis from the Gulf country are paler in colour than those 
from the Jardine River.” 
Captain S. A. White wrote me : “I have met with P. rubricatu-s all 
through the interior but have never seen it near the coast. Its note is very 
distinct from that of other members of the group.” He has published a 
longer note : “ We did not meet with this bird till we were close on the borders 
of the Northern Territory. While ascending Christmas Creek I heard its 
call, which differs much from all the other members of the genus. I knew 
it was a Pardalote, but had to ? the species. In spite of all my efforts, 
during the greater part of a very hot day, I was unsuccessful in securing a 
specimen. It was not until a few' days later, at Blood Creek, the same call 
v'as heard again, which consists of two notes exactly alike made in quick 
succession; we then secured a pair. Prom that time onwards we found 
them plentiful, nearly always in the gums growling along the watercourses, 
but on rare occasions we found them out in the mulga scrub.” 
Jackson has also written from the Diamantina River, Central Queens¬ 
land : “ Common, and usually met with in pairs. Their note is the most 
remarkable of all the Pardalotes that I have met with. The call consists of 
six notes (sometimes four) uttered quickly and closely resembles the ordinary 
six- or eight-note call of Platycercus eximius (Rosella).” 
Whitlock found the form named pallidus on the Pilbarra Goldfield and 
wrote: “ This was the common Pardalote of the district. On the Coongan, 
wherever there were gums, there its monotonous notes were sure to be heard. 
On the de Grey it was less common, and I heard little of it between the latter 
river and the coast. On the upper Coongan the main river was more favoured 
than the tributaries, but the nests were always in the banks of side creeks, 
or even in little runlets of no more than 1 foot or 18 inches deep. Where the 
soil was loamy these runlets had been scoured out by the heavy rain, and 
I could easily locate the tunnel without much difficulty. As incubation is 
nearing the end the female sits closely, and I have several times started to 
dig out the nest before she flew out of the tunnel.” 
Mr. Tom Carter has written me : “ The Pale Red-browed Pardalote is 
given in your ‘ Reference List,’ 1910, as ranging through West Australia, 
and the type was obtained at Marble Bar, West Australia, w r hich township 
is about 170 miles east of Roebume (Lat. S. 21°), as well in the north-west. 
It occurs in White Gum timber in creek beds on the tableland rough country, 
behind the ranges of the North-west Cape, and has also been noted in the 
same timber inland from Point Cloates, as far as the Gascoyne, always in 
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