PARDAROTUS. 
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“Like the Black-headed species (P. melanocephalus, ) it digs 
a small narrow burrow in the side of a bank or mound of earth, 
the end of this it enlarges into a spherical chamber of about 
four inches in diameter, which it lines all round but more thickly 
at the bottom, with fine strips of stringy-bark, f or, in the absence 
of this material, with grass. When the earth is carefully removed 
and the nest taken out, it is found to be a very loose hollow ball, 
slightly interwoven and having a small round entrance in the 
side, opposite the opening of the burrow. Sometimes a small 
hole in a log of wood is chosen, a crevice in an old wall, a niche 
under a shelving rock, or the banks of water-holes or creeks, all 
alike are resorted to; still I have never known the Spotted 
Pardalote to breed in the hollow branch of a tree or take 
possession of the nests of a Fairy Martin (Lagenoplasles ariel) 
as P. nffinis and P. striatus are wont to do.” 
The eggs of Pardalolus punctatus are four in number, of a 
beautiful pearly-white after being emptied, but pinkish before 
rather roundish, being in length 0-6 inch x 0-5 inch in breadth. 
The breeding season, which commences sometimes as early as July, 
lasts until the end of December, during which time three broods 
are often raised.” ( Ramsay , Ibis, 1868, Vol. iv., New Series 
p. 272.) 
While collecting with Mr. George Masters at Chatsworth near 
Mount Druitt, New South Wales, on the 29th September, 1886, 
a set of these eggs, which are unusally large, were taken, they 
measure in length (A), 0’77 'x 058 inch ; (B), 0-71 x 055 inch ; 
(C), 0'7 x 054 inch; (D), 071 x 0 - 57 inch. 
Hab. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 
South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, 
West and South-West Australia. {Ramsay.) 
t The fibrous bark of the Eucalyptus capitella, E. macro rrhyncha, and 
other allied species. 
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