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PARDALOTUS UROPYGIALIS, Gould.
Yellow-rumped Pardalote.
Pardalotus uropygialis, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part VII. 1839, p. 143.
F o r this very beautiful Pardalote, and several other interesting birds from the north-west coast o f 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 o f 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 o f the group with which I am
acquainted, amounting to seven or eight in number, by the bright yellow colouring o f the rump, by the rich
spot o f orange before the eye, by having a shorter wing, and by being more diminutive in size than any
of the others, with the exception o f 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 o f its group.
Crown o f 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 o f the neck and back olive g rey ; wings black, the external
webs o f 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.