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Birds of Australia, Vol. iv. pi. 81), with the deep tawny-buff 

 flanks and the grey throat shows the autumn and winter attire, and 

 Z. (Dacnis) westernensis, Quoy and Gaimard (Voyage de FAstro- 

 labe, T. i. p. 216, and Atlas, plate 11, fig. 4) with the bright 

 olive-yellow throat and very pale tawny-brown flanks, the spring 

 and summer livery. Among the specimens exhibited by Mr. 

 North and bearing out his statements was one captured in his 

 garden at Ashfield on the 26th inst., which shows a transition 

 from the winter to the spring j)lumage, the grey throat being 

 faintly washed with olive-yellow, and the flanks nearly as pale as 

 specimens obtained in the summer. Z. wesfernensis, Quoy and 

 Gaim., and other writers must therefore become a synonym of the 

 older name Z. cwrulescens, of Latham. 



