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I>e Senegali quiuticolor, Vieill. Ois. Chant, p. 38, pi. 15 (1805). 

 Friugilla qiiinticolor, Ticill. N. Diet. (VHist. Nat. xii. p. 183 (1817). 

 Common Grosbeak, Lewin, Nat. Hist. B. New Holl. pi. xii. (1822). 

 Fringilla temporalis, Vig. i^- Horsf. Trans. Linn. Sue. xv. p, "" 



(1827) ; Jard. ^- Selbi/, III. Orn. "i. pi. 12. figs. 1, 2. 

 Estrelda temporalis, Gould, B. Austr. fol. iii. pi. 82 (1848) ; Diggles, 



Orn. Austr. pi. 49. fig. 2 (1870). 

 Amadina temporalis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 370 (1848) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 57, no. 6794 (1870). 

 Sporotblastes temporalis, Bp. Cnnsp. i. p. 455 (1850). 

 yEgintha temporalis, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 170 (1850); Reichenb. 



Singv. p. ly, Taf. iii. figs. 16-18 (1802) ; Goidd, Ilandb. B. Austr. 



i. p. 411 (1865). 

 Estrelda (yEgintha) temporalis, Ramsay, Pi-oc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



ii. p. 186 (1878) ; id. Tab. List Austr. B.-p.lO (1878). 



Adult. General colour above olive-yellowish ; wing-coverts like the 

 back ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts ashy brown fringed with 

 olive ; quills dusky brown, externally edged with olive, brighter on 

 the primaries, which are ashy towards the ends of the outer webs ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts crimson ; tail-feathers dusky brown, 

 shaded with ashy grey ; crown of head and nape slaty grey ; lores, 

 eyebrow, and a streak above the ear-coverts crimson ; eyelid crimson 

 above, ashy below ; ear-coverts, checks, throat, and under surface 

 of body ashy grey, pearly grey on the latter : centre of breast and 

 abdomen isabelline, as also the under tail-coverts, the latter washed 

 with ashy; sides of body and flanks ashy grey ; thighs ashy grey ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries isabelline ; quills below dusky, 

 ashy whitish along the inner edge : " biU fine blood-red, with the 

 ridge of the upper and lower part of the under mandible black ; 

 feet yellowish white ; iris brownish red ; eyelash narrow, nut-red 

 and black" {J. Gould). Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-4, 

 wing 2-05, tail 1*8, tarsus 0-55. 



Hah. Australia, Queensland to Wide Bay District and New South 

 "Wales. 



a. Ad. st. South Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



b. $ ad. sk. South Australia {J. G.). Gould Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. South Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. South Australia. J. C. D. Packman, 



Esq. [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 

 /, g. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Forbes Coll. 



h. S ad. sk. New South Wales. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 i, k. Ad. sk. Queensland {J. T. Cock- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ei-ell). 

 I. Ad. sk. Australia. Sir D. Cooper [P.]. 



