_J. & E. Gould del,^t_ _C. Hullmandel Imp._
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PARDALOTUS UROPYGIALIS, _Gould_.
Yellow-rumped Pardalote.
_Pardalotus uropygialis_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part VII.
1839, p. 143.
For this very beautiful Pardalote, and several other interesting birds
from the north-west coast of Australia, I am indebted to the kindness of
Benjamin Bynoe, Esq., Surgeon of Her Majesty’s Surveying Ship the
Beagle; to Captain Wickham and the other officers of which vessel my
thanks are also due for their polite attention to my wishes, and the
promise of communicating to me any novelties they might procure during
their survey of the north-west coast.
The Yellow-rumped Pardalote is easily distinguished from every other
species of the group with which I am acquainted, amounting to seven or
eight in number, by the bright yellow colouring of the rump, by the rich
spot of orange before the eye, by having a shorter wing, and by being
more diminutive in size than any of the others, with the exception of
_Pardalotus punctatus_. It is more closely allied to my _Pardalotus
melanocephalus_ than any other species; but as the latter is without the
yellow on the rump, and has a larger bill, I am induced to regard them
as distinct.
I am unable to give any account of its habits and manners, but in these
respects it doubtless closely assimilates to the other members of its
group.
Crown of the head, stripe before and behind the eye black; lores rich
orange; a mark from above the eye to the occiput, chest and centre of
the abdomen white; throat and cheeks delicate crocus-yellow; rump and
upper tail-coverts sulphur-yellow; back of the neck and back olive-grey;
wings black, the external webs of the second and five following
primaries white at the base; tips of the spurious wing scarlet; tail
black; the three outer feathers tipped with white, the white spreading
largely over the inner web of the outer feathers; bill black; feet lead
colour.
The sexes do not differ in size or in the colour of their plumage.
The figures are of the natural size.
[Illustration:
STREPERA GRACULINA: _Lefs._
_J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._
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STREPERA GRACULINA.
Pied Crow-Shrike.
_Réveilleur de l’Isle de Norfolk?_, Dand., tom. ii. p. 267.
_Corvus graculinus_ (White-vented Crow), White’s Bot. Bay, pl. in p.
251.
_Coracias strepera_, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 173.
_Corvus streperus_, Leach, Zool. Misc., vol. ii. pl. 86.
_Noisy Roller_, Lath. Gen. Syn., Supp., vol. ii. p. 121.
_Le Grand Calibé_, Le Vaill. Ois. de Par., &c., pl. 24.
_Cracticus streperus_, Vieill. Gal. des Ois., pl. 109.—Vig. and Horsf.
in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 261.
_Gracula strepera_, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. vii. p. 462.
_Barita strepera_, Temm. Man., part i. p. li.
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