Order PASSERIFORMES. Family PA RDAL0T1DM . 
No. 632. 
NESOPARDALOTUS QUADRAGINTUS. 
FORTY-SPOTTED PARDALOTE. 
(Plate 510.) 
Pardalotus quadragintus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iy., pi. (62), April 1st, 
1838 : Tasmania. 
Pardalotus quadragintus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. (62), 1838; id., Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 148, Dec. 1838; id., Birds Austr., pt. xn. (Vol. II., 
p. 37), Sept. 1st, 1843; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 160, 1865; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 180, 1878; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. X., p. 62, 1885; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, p. 241, 1887 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List. Austr. Birds, p. 4, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 47, 1899; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 449, 1901; A. G. Campbell, 
Emu, Vol. II., p. 208, 1903 (King Island); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, 
Vol. II., p. 233, 1907 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 91, 1908 ; A. G. Campbell, 
Emu, Vol. IX., p. 22, 1909 (Review); Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 67, 1910 ; 
Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 390, 1912. 
Nesopardalotus quadragintus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 258, 1913. 
Nesopardalotus quadragintus rex Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., pts. 2-3, p. 37, 
Feb. 21st, 1923 : King Island, Bass Strait. 
Nesopardalotus quadragintus quadragintus Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Tasmania : King Island, Bass Straits. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface dark yellowish-olive with dark fringes 
to the feathers, which imparts a scalloped appearance including the top of the head, 
sides of the face, sides of the neck, hind-neck, entire back, rump, upper tail-coverts, 
and scapulars ; upper wing-coverts and flight-quills blackish-brown with white tips 
to the feathers; tail dark brown narrowly fringed with white at the tips of most 
of the feathers and for some distance down the outer-web of the outermost feather ; 
rictal-bristles short but numerous; ear-coverts golden-yellow; under-surface 
greyish-white with grey spots at the tips of the feathers on the throat, breast, 
and abdomen, becoming darker and inclining to ochreous-yellow on the sides of the 
body and thighs ; vent whitish ; under tail-coverts yellow ; axillaries and under 
wing-coverts whitish; under-surface of flight-quills dark hair-brown with pale 
margins ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface but paler. Bill black, 
feet black-brown, eyes dark. Total length 94 mm. ; culmen 6, wing 59, tail 32, 
tarsus 18. Figured. Collected in Tasmania. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
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