_Pardalotus rubricatus_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part V. p. 149; and in Syn. Birds of Australia, Part IV. All the information I have to communicate respecting this new and beautiful Pardalote, which I have named _rubricatus_, from the red spot before the eye, is, that I procured a single specimen at Liverpool from among some other birds, all of which had been brought from the east coast of Australia: no other example has come under my notice, and it may probably be the only one in Europe. It belongs to the same section of the _Pardaloti_ as the _P. punctatus_ and _P. quadragintus_, and like them is distinguished from the other members of the group by the absence of the sealing-wax-like tips of the spurious wing-feathers,—a character which is constant in the _P. uropygialis_, _P. affinis_, _P. striatus_ and _P. melanocephalus_. It is the largest species of the genus yet discovered, all the members of which are confined to Australia; and is readily distinguished from its near allies the _P. punctatus_ and _P. quadragintus_ by the larger size of the spots on the crown, and by its having less yellow on the throat than the former, and more than the latter. As nothing whatever is at present known respecting it, it is one of those species I would especially recommend to the notice of those favourably situated for observing it. Forehead crossed by a narrow band of dirty white; crown and back of the head deep black, each feather having a spot of white near its extremity; back of the neck, back, wing-coverts and rump brownish grey; wings dark brown, margined with pale brown, the spurious wing, a small portion of the base of the primaries, and the outer margins of the secondaries fine golden orange; immediately before the eye a spot of bright, fiery orange; above and behind the eye a stripe of buff; upper tail-coverts bright olive-green; tail deep blackish brown, the extreme tips of the feathers being white; throat and abdomen greyish white; chest bright yellow; upper mandible and legs brown, under mandible greyish white. The bird is represented in two positions, of the natural size, on a plant gathered in New South Wales. [Illustration: PARDALOTUS QUADRAGINTUS: _Gould_. _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] PARDALOTUS QUADRAGINTUS, _Gould_. Forty-spotted Pardalote. _Pardalotus quadragintus_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part V. p. 148; and in Syn. Birds of Australia, Part IV. _Forty-spot_, Colonists of Van Diemen’s Land.