22. ZON^GINTBTUS. 293 



black and greyish white ; in ohher respects the plumage nearly 

 resembles the adult. (Gould.) 



Hah. South Australia to New Soutli \\';iles, and north to the Wide- 

 Bay district. 



a, b. Ad. et juv. st. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Australia. Rev. A. Strong [P.]. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Australia. Forbes Coll. 



e. Juv. sk. Australia. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 

 /. $ juv. sk. South Australia. Gould CoU. 



g. Ad. St. South AustraHa. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



h. 2 ad. sli. South Australia (J. G.). Gould Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Forbes Coll. 



k, I. Ad. sk. New South Wales (J. T. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Cockerell). 



tn. Ad. sk. New South Wales. II. B. Sharoe, Esq. 



[P.]. 



22. ZON^IGINTHUS. 



Type. 

 Zonsegmthus, Cab. 3Ius. Hein. Th. i. p. 171 (1850) Z. bellus. 



Range. Confined to Australia. 



Key to the Sjjecies. 



a. No red spot on the ear ; under surface transversely 



narrowly barred bellus, p. 293. 



b. A crimson ear-spot; throat and fore neck brown, 



transversely barred with black ; rest of imder sur- 

 face lai'gely barred and spotted with white oculatus, p. 294. 



1. Zonseginthus bellus. 



Black-lined Grosbeak, Lafh. Gen. Stpi. Suppl. ii. p. 198 (1801). 



Nitid Grosbeak, Lath. t. c. p. 198, pi. 1.31 (1801). 



Loxia bella, Lath. hid. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. xlvi (1801). 



Loxia nitida. Lath. t. c. p. xlvii (hsOl) ; Vieill. Ois. Chant, p. 93, 



pi 60 (180o). 

 Fringilla bella, Vig. S,- Horsf. Tram. Linn. Sac. xv. p, 2-57 (1827). 

 Estrelda bella, Gould, B. Austr. fol. iii. pi. 78 (1848) ; Pelz. Ibis, 



1873, p. 11-5. 

 Aniadiim nitida, Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 370 (1849). 

 Astrilda bella, lieichenb. Vor/. Neuholl. p. 90 (1850). 

 Zonffiginthus bellus, Cab. Mas. Hem. T.'. i. p. 171 (1850); Goidd, 



Handb. B. Audr. i. p. 406 (1865). 

 Sporothlastes nitida, Bp. Consp. i. p. 455 (1850). 

 Zonseuinthus nitidus, Reichenb. Sinnv. p. 13, Taf. iii. tigs. 19, 20 



(1862). 

 Amadina bella, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 57, no. 6796 (1870;. 

 Estrelda (Zoiifeginthus) beUa, Banhsay, l\oc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



ii. p. 186 (1878) ; id. Tab. List Austr. B. p. 10 (1888). 



Adult. Brown, vermiculated with very narrow blackish cross 

 lines, less distinct on the head and mantle, more pronounced on the 

 back and scapulars and wing-coverts ; greater coverts and second- 

 aries more distinctly barred with blackish cross lines, the latter 



