29. STICTOPTEEA. 313 



a. S ad. sk. Timor (A. E. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



h,c.(^2 ad. sk. E. Timor. Wallace Coll. 



(Types of species.) 



(l. 2 ad. sk. £. Timor. Wallace Coll. 



e. cj ad. sk. Semao, Timor. Wallace Coll. 



fyff. S; h, i. $ Flores. Wallace Coll. 



ad. sk. 



k,l. ^ 2 ad. sk. Flores {A. R. Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



m. 5 ad. sk. Flores {A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



29. STICTOPTEEA. 



Type. 

 Stictoptera, Reichenh. Sinrjv. p. 31 (1861) S. bichenovii. 



Range. Confined to Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. W^ith the rump white hichenorii, p. 31.3. 



h. With the rump black annulosa, p. 314. 



1. Stictoptera bichenovii. 



Fringilla bichenovii, M(j. &i- Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 258 



(1827). _ 

 Estrelda bichenovii, Gould, B. Austr. fol. iii. pi. 80 (1848) ; Ramsay, 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) ii. p. 168 (1888). 

 Amadina bichenovii, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 370 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. 



i?._ii. p. 57, no. 6793 (1870). 

 Astrilda bichenovii, Reichenh. Voy. Neuholl. p. 11-5 (1850). 

 Staganopleura bichenovii, Bp. Consj). i. p. 4.56 (1850). 

 Stictoptera bichenovii, Reichenh. Sinqv. p. 31, Taf. x. figs. 91, 92 



(1862) ; Gould, Handh. B. Austr. \. p. 409 (1865). 

 Estrelda (Stictoptera) bichenovii, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



ii. p. 186 (1878) ; id. Tah. List Austr. B. p. 10 i 



Adult. General colour above light brown, vermiculatcd with 

 indistinct transverse bars of dusky brown ; upper tail-coverts white, 

 preceded by a black bar across the rump ; lesser and median wing- 

 coverts like the back, the latter with coarser blackish cross bars ; 

 greater coverts and quills blackish, checkered with white spots ; 

 tail-feathers black ; head like the back ; forehead blackish, extend- 

 ing backwards in a line along the sides of the crown and descending 

 behind the ear-coverts in a narrow collar across the lower throat, 

 enclosing the latter, as well as the sides of face, which with the 

 lores and a narrow eyebrow are white ; remainder of under surface 

 of body yellowish white, crossed by a second black band across the 

 breast ; chest tinged with ashy, the sides of it light brown like the 

 back, with faint vermiculations ; under tail-coverts black; under 

 wing-coverts fulvesceut ; quills dusky, ashy fulvous along the inner 

 web: "bill beautiful pale blue; irides black, surrounded by a 

 narrow black lash" {Gould). Total length 3-8 inches, culmen 0-4, 

 wing 2-15, tail 1'6, tarsus 0-6. 



