376 PLOCEID.E. 



Achdt female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 5-4 

 inches, culmcn 0-41, wing 2-35, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-55. 



Young. Similar to the adults, but much duller in colour, and 

 having all but the centre tail-feathers broadly tipped with white. 

 The head is not so grej-, and approaches the brown of the back. 



Hob. North and North-west Australia. 



2. Poephila cincta. 



Amadina cincta, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 105; Oray, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 370 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. oo, no. 6773 (1870). 

 Poephila cincta, Gould, B. Austr. fol. iii. pi. 93 (1848) ; Eekhenb. 



Voff. Nevholl. p. 117 (1858) ; id. Singv. p. 29, Taf. xi. fig. 79 (1802) ; 



Goidd, Handh. B. Ausir. i. p. 425 (1865) ; Eamsay, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 187 (1878) ; id. Tab. List Austr. B. p. 10 



(1888). 

 Sporothlastes cincta, Bp. Consp. i. p. 456 (1850). 



Adult male. General colour above light cinnamon-brown, a little 

 more dingy brown towards the rump, which is crossed by a black 

 bar ; lower rump and upper tail-coverts white ; wing-coverts drab- 

 brown ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, 

 externally drab-brown, the primaries margined with whitish ; tail- 

 feathers black ; crown of head delicate ashy grey, pearly grey on the 

 forehead ; lores black ; eyelid, ear-coverts, and cheeks pearly grey, 

 whitish at the base of the cheeks ; throat entirely black ; under 

 surface of body from the fore neck cinnamon, with a black bar 

 across the flanks ; lower abdomen, lower flanks, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale cinnamon ; 

 quills below dusky, light cinnamon along the inner edge : " bill black ; 

 feet pink-red ; iris reddish brown ; eyelash blackish brown '' (,/. 

 Gould). Total length 4-4 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-35, tail 1-65, 

 tarsus 0"6. 



Hah. North-east and South Australia. 



a. Ad. St. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. 



b, c. Ad. & Australia. Gould Coll. 

 imm. sk. 



d. Ad. st. Australia. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 



e,f. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Forbes Coll. 



f/. Ad. sk. New South Wales. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Queensland (J. T. CockereU). Salvin-GodiLan Coll. 



