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abandonment of the young Albatros without any apparent means 
of subsistence from March until October. 
I remain, Sir, 
Yours obediently, 
Howard Saunders. 
Dobroyde, New South Wales, 
21 October, 1865. 
Sir, —Having lately had Mr. Gould’s ‘ Birds of Australia 9 
before me, I wish to make a few further remarks on the species 
of Pardalotus. 
The bird figured on plate 39 (vol. ii.) is undoubtedly the 
common Sydney species, namely P. affinis. In that district it 
annually arrives during the month of August, in company with 
P. punctatus. I have besides shot specimens of the same species 
on the Bogan and Bell rivers, at Goulburn, Braid wood, and 
Liverpool, where I also procured the variety with deep orange 
tips to the spurious wing-feathers. Further, I have received it 
from Port Denison, along with P. melanocephalus. 
The species figured on plate 38, P. striatus , I have never 
known to occur near Sydney, and was much surprised at finding 
it breeding at Cardington. But I have several times received 
specimens of it from South Australia, where, I am informed, it is 
very common. This species has the outer webs of the third to 
the seventh primaries, inclusive, white, and the tips of the spurious 
wings deep orange. P. affinis sometimes has the tips of the 
spurious wings light orange or yellow, and sometimes deep 
orange, as I have before mentioned (Ibis, 1865, p. 298), but 
never more than the third primary white on the outer edge. 
I have recently met with a colony of P. affinis breeding under 
circumstances similar to that of P. puneicttus, which I before 
described—namely in a batch of nests of Chelidon ariel, under the 
the eaves of a house at Springfield near Goulburn. They were 
not at all disturbed by the return of the rightful owners, but 
continued to breed in company with them. Mr. M. Faithful 
informs me that the Pardalotes arrive every year a few weeks 
before the Martins, and betake themselves to such of the nests 
of the latter as have not been knocked down. These they line 
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