PARDALOTUS STRIATUS, Temm. 
Striated Pardalote. 
Pardalotus striatus, Temm. Man. part i. p. Ixv.—Vig. & Horsf. in Linn. Trans, vol. xv. p, 237, note —Gould, 
Syn. Birds of Australia, part il. 
Pipra striata, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 558. no. 13.—Gmel. Syst. vol. i, p. 1003. 
Striped-headed Manakin, Lath. Gen. Syn. vol. iv. p. 526, pl. 54; Supp. p. 188.—Shaw, Zool. vol. x. p. 29, 
pl. 4.—Lath. Gen. Hist. vol. vii. p. 237, pl. 109 ? 
Pardalotus ornatus, Temm., Pl. Col. 394. fig. 1. 
We-dup-wee-dup, Aborigines of the lowland, and 
We-du-we-due, Aborigines of the mountain districts of Western Australia. 
Tus beautiful species, like the P. punctatus, enjoys an extensive range of habitat, being found in all parts 
of the southern portion of the Australian continent; it has not as yet been discovered in Van Diemen’s 
Land, its place in that island being apparently occupied by the P. afinis. I have carefully examined 
specimens killed at Swan River, with others from New South Wales ; and I cannot find the slightest difference 
either in their size or markings. It will be interesting to know how far this species and the P. punctatus 
extend their range northwards, a point which can only be ascertained when the country has been fully ex- 
plored. The P. wropygialis is the only species that has yet been discovered on the north coast. This 
active little bird is generally seen seeking insects among the leaves, for which purpose it frequents trees of 
every description, but gives a decided preference to the Eucalypti. Its flight is rapid and darting ; hence it 
passes from tree to tree, or from one part of the forest to another, with the greatest ease. Its voice is a 
double note several times repeated. 
The nest, which is a very neat structure of dried soft grasses and the bark of the tea-tree, lined with feathers, 
is usually placed in a hole of a dead branch, but sometimes in the bole of the tree. It breeds in September, 
October, and November, and lays three or four fleshy-white eggs, which are nine lines long by several lines 
broad. 
The sexes so closely assimilate in colour and markings that they are only to be distinguished by dissection. 
The young assume the adult colouring from the nest, but have the tips of the spurious wing orange 
instead of red. 
Forehead and crown of the head black, the feathers of the latter having a stripe of white down the 
centre ; a stripe of deep orange-yellow commences at the base of the upper mandible and runs above the 
eye, where it is joined by a stripe of white which leads to the occiput; back of the neck and back brownish 
olive-grey ; rump and upper tail-coverts yellowish brown; wings black, the external edges of the third, 
fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh primaries white at their base and tipped with white ; secondaries margined 
with white and reddish brown; tail black, each feather tipped with white; sides of the face and neck grey ; 
throat and upper part of the chest yellow; centre of the abdomen white; flanks and under tail-coverts 
brownish buff, the former tinged with yellow; irides brownish red; bill at the tip and along the culmen 
dark brown tinged with blue, the remainder yellowish white ; legs and feet greenish grey. 
The Plate represents a male, a female, and three young birds, of the natural size. 
