pardalote

n.

anglicised form of the scientificbird-name Pardalotus (q.v.), generally called Diamondbirds (q.v.); a genus of small short-tailed birds like theFlycatchers. The species are – – Black-headed Pardalote – – Pardalotus melanocephalus, Gould.

♣ Chestnut-rumped P. – – P. uropygialis, Gould.

♣ Forty-spotted P. – – P. quadragintus, Gould; called also Forty-Spot (q.v.).

♣ Orange-tipped P. – – P. assimilis, Ramsay.

♣ Red-browed P. – – P. rubricatus, Gould.

♣ Red-tipped P. – – P. ornatus, Temm.

♣ Spotted P. – – P. punctatus, Temm.; the bird originally calledthe Diamond Bird (q.v.).

♣ Yellow-rumped P. – – P. xanthopygius, McCoy.

♣ Yellow-tipped P. – – P. affinis, Gould. – –

1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. ii. pl. 35:

«No species of the genus to which this bird belongs is morewidely and generally distributed than the spotted pardalote, Pardalotus punctatus.»