THE GEELONG NATURALIST. 1958 
PARDALOTUS ASSIMILIS (Ramsay). 
ORANGE-TIPPED DIAMOND BIRD. 
FicunE.—Nil. 
REFERENCE.—Cat. Bds., Brit. Mus., Vol. X, p. 56. 
GEOGRAPHICAL DisrRiBUTION.—Queensland and New 
South Wales. 
Nest AND EcGs.— Unknown, but probably resemble those 
of the Red-tipped Diamond Bird (P. ornatus) and placed in 
similar situations. 
PARDALO TUS "AE FINIS (Gould). 
YELLOW-TIPPED DIAMOND BIRD. 
FicunE.—Gould ; Bds. of Aust., fol., Vol. II, pl. 39. 
ReEFERENCE.—Cat. Bds., Brit. Mus., Vol. X, p. 57. : 
Previous Derscriprion or  EccGs.—Gould; Bds. of 
Aust. (1848) ; also Hdbk., Vol. I, p. 164, (1865). 
North: Cat. Nests and Eggs, Aust. Mus., p. 51, (1889). 
GEOGRAPHICAL Drsrrisution.—South Queensland, New 
South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Waste nies 
(including some of the intermediate islands). 
Nzsr.— Constructed of grasses, strips of bark and feathers, 
usually built within a hole of a tree, sometimes near the 
ground, at other times at a considerable height. Occasionally 
the nest is placed underground in a bank. 
Eces.—Clutch 3-5, usually 4. Somewhat round or 
roundish ovals in shape; texture of shell fine; pure white, with 
‘slight trace of gloss on the surface. Dimensions in inches :— 
large example, 0.77 x 0.58; small example 0.6 x 0.56. Set 
in Mr. E..D. Atkinson’s collection (Tasmania). (1) 0.77 x 
0.58; (2) 0.77 x 0.58; (3) 0.77 x 0.57. 
OBSERVATIONS.— This is the Tasmanian and Southern 
form of the Red-tipped Diamond-Bird, the Orange-tipped 
variety of New South Wales and Queensland being an 
intermediate species. 
The “ Allied" Diamond-Bird, as it is nondescriptly called, 
may be distinguished from the Red- tipped species, which it 
much resembles, by having the tips of the spurious wings 
yellow instead of red, hence the more appropriate and dis- 
tinguishing terms, “‘ Yellow- tipped " and ** Red-tipped.” 
The duration of the breeding season applies alike to the 
two species. Gould, on reference to his journal, says “I 
find that near George Town, on the 8th of January, 1839, I 
took from a nest in a hole of a tree, five fully fledged young. 
The nest in this instance was of a large size, and of a round: 
