296 PLOCEID^. 



abdomen spotted with white ; sides of body and flanks brown : under 

 tail-coverts black : under wing-coverts f ulvescent : '' upper mandible 

 black, tipped with scarlet ; under mandible scarlet, with a trian- 

 gular patch of livid blue at the base " {F. Oihson). Total length 

 4-2 inches, culmcn 0-45, wing 2-2, tail 1-45, tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with only the lores and 

 the feathers above the eye scarlet ; no red on the cheeks or throat ; 

 the latter, as well as the fore neck, black, spotted with white ; the 

 whole of the under surface browner below and more plentifully 

 spotted with white ; only a tinge of scarlet on the breast. Total 

 length 4 inches, culmen Oo, wing 2-2, tail 1-25, tarsus 0-55. 



The males differ from each other in the amount of scarlet, which 

 sometimes extends over the whole of the throat and down the entire 

 breast. 



Hah, Northern and Central Australia. 



a. $ ad. sk. Champion Bay. Purchased. 



h. S ad. sk. Interior of Northern AustraHa. F. Gibson [C.]. 



c, (S ad. sk. Interior of Northern Austi-alia. Forbes Coll. 



d, e. c? ; Interior of Northern Australia Gould Coll. 

 /. 2 ad. sk. (F. Gibson). 



24. ZONOGASTRIS. 



Type. 



Zonogastris, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 172 (1850) Z. citerior. 



Marquetia, Reiclienh. Singv. p. 48 (1861) Z. melba. 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Red colour of head not extending beyond the eye, 

 but produced over the fore neck. 

 a'. Colour of head and throat scarlet vermilion . . mella, p. 296. 

 h' . Colour of head and throat rosy vermilion .... soudanensis, p. 298. 

 h. Scarlet colour of head extending over the eyebrow 

 and behind the eye, but conflned to the upper 

 throat ; the lower throat golden yellow like the 

 fore neck citerior, p. 299. 



1. Zonogastris melba. 



The Green Goldfinch, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. iii. p. 128, pi. 128. 



fig. 1 (1750), {iiec Glean, pi. 272. fig. 2) ; Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. 



p. 286 (1783). 

 Le Chardonneret verd, Briss. Orn. vi. Suppl. p. 70 (1760) ; Month. 



Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 211 (1778). 

 Fringilla melba, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 319 (1766) ; Vieill. N. Diet. 



d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 168 (1817) ; id. Fnc. Meth. iii. p. 984 (1823). 

 Le Beau Marquet, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 497 (1775). 

 Moineau de la Cote d'Afrique, Daubent. PI. Fnl. iv. pi. 203. fig. 1. 

 Beautiful Finch, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 206 (1783). 

 Fringilla speciosa, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 12 (1783). 



