ESTUELDA MODESTA. 



(JPlain-colored Finch.) 



Forehead, purple ; lores and spot on the cliin, black ; crown, back of the neck, back, and wings, brown ; wing coverts and tertiaries, tipped 

 with white ; rump and upper tail coverts, barred with white and brown ; tail, black — the two outer feathers tipped with white ; under surface, 

 white, barred with brown ; middle of the abdomen, white ; legs, light flesh color ; irides, bright hazel. 



Length, 4|- inches ; wing, 2i ; tail, 2 ; bill, f ; tarsus, -§-. 



This species frequents the same portions of the country as the former, and is met with occasionally on the banks of the 

 Brisbane River. It would not seem to extend its range as far as Port Curtis, for among the various species of finch received from thence, I 

 have not seen a specimen of the present one. In its habits it is similar to thq others, always to be seen on the ground, grass seed forming 

 its principal food, and, like them, constructing a dome-shaped nest of grasses with the entrance near the top. The eggs are six in number, 

 pinky white : size, i by f of an inch. 



