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louring of the rump, which in this species is black, while in 

 the other it is white. 



Face, ear-coverts, and throat white, surrounded by a jet- 

 black band, which is broadest on the forehead ; chest greyish 

 white, bounded below by a conspicuous band of black ; lower 

 part of the abdomen white ; crown of the head, back of the 

 neck, and back greyish brown marked with numerous fine 

 transverse lines of greyish white ; rump, upper and under 

 tail-coverts and tail black ; wings blackish brown, the second- 

 aries and coverts thickly dotted with fine markings of greyish 

 white ; bill and feet lead-colour. 



Total length 4 inches ; bill f ; wing 2 ; tail 2-g- ; tarsi ^. 



Genus ^GINTHA, Cabanis. 



M. Cabanis has instituted this genus for Fringilla tempo- 

 ralis of Latham. It is the only species of this form yet dis- 

 covered in Australia, and is nearly allied to Estrelda. 



Sp. 253. ^GINTHA TEMPORALIS. 



Red-eyebrowed Finch. 



Fringilla temporalis, Lat. Ind. Orn., Supp. p. xlviii. 



Temporal Finch, Lat. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 211. 



Le Senegali quinticolor, Vieill. Ois. Chant., p. 38, pi. 15. 



Fringilla quinticolor, \i&i\[. 2nde edit, du Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 



torn. xii. p. 183. 

 Amadina temporalis. Gray and Mitch, Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 370, 



Amadina, sp. 25. 

 ^gintha temporalis, Cab. Mus. Hein., Theil i. p. 170. 

 Goo-lung-ag-ga, Aborigines of New^ South Wales. 

 Red-Bill of the Colonists. 



Estrelda temporalis, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. ill. pi. 82. 



This species of Finch is very generally spread over the gar- 

 dens and all such open pasture lands of New South Wales 

 and South Australia as abound in grasses and small plants, 



