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PAEDALOTINffi. 
PARDALOTUS XANTHOPYGIUS, McCoy. 
Yellow-rumped Diamond-bird. 
Gould, Suppl. Bds. Aust., pi. 8. 
This beautiful little Pardalote, the last discovered of the family 
is dispersed over the southern portions of the Australian continent. 
It gives a decided preference for the Mallee country and scrubby 
tracts of land ; in Victoria it is found rather plentifully in the 
Whipstick scrub near Sandhurst, and parts of the Wimmera 
district. It excavates a tunnel about two feet in length, in a bank 
or in the side of a slight depression of the earth, at the 
extremity of which it builds a nest of strips of bark and dried 
grasses; the eggs are four in number for a sitting, pearly-white, 
rounded in form and slightly pointed at one end, a set taken 
during November 1883, in the Whipstick scrub, Sandhurst, 
measure as follows : — length (A) 0-05 x 0-5 inch; (13) O'GG x 0T)2 
inch ; (C) 0 - 65 x 52 inch; (D) 0 - G4 x 051 inch. 
JIab. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, 
West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay.) 
PARDALOTUS ORNATUS, Temminck. 
(P. striatus, Vigors and Horsfield.) 
Striated Pardalote. 
Gould, ffandbk. Birds Aust., Vol. i., sp. 84, p. 161. 
“ During my first visit to Cardington, on the Bell River, in the 
Molong district, I was much surprised and delighted at finding 
this beautiful species of Pardalote in that neighbourhood. My 
brother, Mr. James Ramsay, informed me at the time, that this 
bird arrived every year about the beginning of October, and would 
shortly begin to breed. This I found to be the case. In the 
course of a few weeks they took possession of their usual breeding 
places, a batch of old nests of the Fairy Martin (Lagenoplastes 
arid). These they lined with grass and stringy-bark making a 
nest similar to that of Pardalotus punclatus, The eggs varied 
