In its actions it much resembles the Tits of Europe, creeping and clinging among the branches in every direction.
The eggs are white and nearly round in form, being seven lines and a half long and six broad.
The sexes are so much alike in colour, that a separate description is unnecessary.
Crown of the head and all the upper surface bright olive-green, each feather obscurely margined with brown; wings brownish black, all the feathers except the first and second primaries having a conspicuous spot of pure white near their extremities; tail blackish grey, the extreme tips of the feathers being white; cheeks and under tail-coverts yellowish olive; throat and under surface greyish white, passing into olive on the flanks; irides dark brown; bill brownish black; feet brown.
The figures are of the natural size.
PARDALOTUS STRIATUS: Vig. & Horsf.
J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith. C. Hullmandel Imp.
PARDALOTUS STRIATUS, Temm.
Striated Pardalote.
Pardalotus striatus, Temm. Man., Part I. p. lxv.—Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 237. note.—Gould, Syn. Birds of Australia, Part II.
Pipra striata, Lath. Ind. Orn., p. 558. No. 13.—Gmel. Syst., vol. i. p. 1003.