The figures are of the natural size, on a branch of the Loranthus above mentioned, which I believe to be an undescribed species.
PARDALOTUS PUNCTATUS: Vieill.
J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith. C. Hullmandel Imp.
PARDALOTUS PUNCTATUS, Temm.
Spotted Pardalote.
Pardalotus punctatus, Temm., Man., Part I. p. lxv.—Id. Pl. Col., 78.—Vieill. Gal. des Ois., tom. i. pl. 73.—Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 237.—Gould, Syn. Birds of Australia, Part II.
Pipra punctata, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp., p. lvi. No. 1.—Shaw, Nat. Misc., p. 111.—Id. Zool., vol. x. p. 30.
Speckled Manikin, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 253.—Id. Gen. Hist., vol. vii. p. 238.
Wë-dup-wë-dup, Aborigines of the lowland districts of Western Australia.
Diamond Bird, Colonists of New South Wales.
No species of the genus to which this bird belongs is more widely and generally distributed than the Spotted Pardalote; it inhabits the whole of the southern parts of the Australian continent from the western to the eastern extremities of the country, and is very common in Van Diemen’s Land. It is nearly always engaged in searching for insects among the foliage, both of trees of the highest growth and of the lowest shrubs; it frequents gardens and enclosures as well as the open forest; and is exceedingly active in its actions, clinging about in every variety of position both above and beneath the leaves with equal facility.