Pardalotes - Where does the word come from?

[Helen Horton <>]

I believe it comes from the Greek, pardalitos, meaning spotted like a leopard.

Cheers

Helen Horton
At 01:34 PM 4/08/02 +1000, Tom Tarrant wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just had a message from an overseas birder who asked where the word
> "Pardalote" derives from, not sure this has been raised before on
> Birding-Aus but I would be interested to know too.
> Tom
> PS: Black-chinned Honeyeaters were showing again today at Petrie, but I
> failed (....once more)  to get any images, the blighters wouldn't sit
> still for a moment!
>
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