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pardalote Ornith.|ˈpɑːdələʊt|
[ad. mod. Zool. L. Pardalōtus (L. J. P. Vieillot Analyse d'une nouvelle Ornithologie (1816) 31), a. Gr. παρδαλωτός spotted like a pard, f. πάρδαλις pard.]
A bird of the Australian genus Pardalotus, consisting of small birds allied to the flycatchers; = diamond-bird s.v. diamond n. 12.
[1826J. F. Stephens in G. Shaw Gen. Zool. XIII. ii. 252 Olive-green Pardalotus, with the back spotted with fulvous.] 1848J. Gould Birds Australia II. 35 Pardalotus punctatus, Temm. Spotted Pardalote. Ibid. 36 Pardalotus rubricatus, Gould. Red-lored Pardalote. 1894A. Newton Dict. Birds iii. 684 Pardalote, see Diamond-bird. 1901A. J. Campbell Nests & Eggs Austral. Birds I. 441 The Red-tipped Pardalote occasionally breeds underground. 1961Coast to Coast 1959–60 63 He pointed to where some pardalotes and sitellas were fluttering about the drooping branch of pepper-tree. 1965Austral. Encycl. VI. 481/1 Pardalotes, a group of very small, insectivorous, tree-haunting birds (genus Pardalotus)... Most are brightly coloured and liberally spotted, hence the term ‘pardalote’ and the alternative name ‘diamond-bird’. 1975I. Rowley Bird Life iii. 40 Pardalotes and shrike-tits may turn to bark searching. |