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PARDALOTIN JK. 
It builds a round, and almost flat, scanty nest of roots and 
grasses — through which the eggs, in some situations, can he seen 
from below—in every possible position, both in the indigenous 
and acclimatized trees of our public parks and gardens. In 
Albert Park I have found mV less than ten nests, each containing 
eggs, in a single row of Pines (Pinus inxignus )of about fifty yards 
in length ; the trees at that time being of a uniform height of five 
feet; at other times the nest is placed in the horizontal fork of the 
branches of the Eucalyptus or Acacia, the broad flat fronds of the 
Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria excelsa), and on two occasions I 
have found it in the leafy top of a rose bush. The eggs are three in 
number, usually of a budy-white ground colour, blotched and 
freckled all over with light brown, and umber brown markings, 
particularly towards the larger end, occasionally one egg in a set 
is found of a dull-white ground colour, with a well defined zone of 
dark umber round the larger end. The measurements of a set 
taken at Albert Park in December 1870, are as follows: — length 
(A) 0'9 x 0-7 inch ; (B) Q’95 x 0 - 7 inch ; (C) 0 - 93 x 0 - G7 inch. 
Hob. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence 
Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 
Australia. (Runway.) 
Family PARDALOTINiE. 
Genus PARDALOTUS, Vieillot. 
PARDALOTUS PUNCTATUS, Tmnminck. 
Spotted Diamond Bird. 
Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aunt., Vol. i., sp. 81, p. 157. 
The Spotted Pardalote or Diamond-bird is common in all parts 
of New South Wales, and plentifully dispersed over the whole of 
eastern and southern portions of the continent, 
