162 FhOCElDM. 



Genus tEGINTHA, Cahanis. 



" f ^GINTHA TEMPOEALIS, Latham. ' 



Eed-eyebrowed Finch. 

 Gould, Sandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 253, p. 411. 



This bird is one of the commonest of the Ploceidce in New 

 South Wales and Victoria ; it constructs a flask-shaped nest 

 of dried grasses &c., placed in a bush or low tree ; a favourite 

 breeding locality of this species is in the Melaleuca scrubs that 

 fringe the edges of rivers and creeks. At Heidelberg in Victoria, 

 I have seen upwards of fifty nests of this species while out collecting 

 in a single day. Eggs five in number for a sitting, pure white ; 

 dimensions of a set in the Australian Museum Collection taken 

 at Macquarie Fields, October 1860 by Dr. Ramsay ; length (A) 

 0-6 X 0-45 inch ; (B) 0-61 x 044 inch ; (0) 0-62 x 0-44 inch ; (D) 

 0-56 X 0-45 inch J (E) 0-63 x 0-43 inch. 



It was from a nest of this species, built in an Acacia opposite 

 the entrance gates to the old Government House at Toorak, Victoria 

 that I first took the egg of Clialcites plagosus, and although I have 

 taken it on many occasions since, it has been very rarely that I 

 have found it in the nest of this bird. Eggs of jE. temporalis 

 may be taken in September and all through the season to the 

 latter end of February. 



Hob. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 

 Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 



Genus AIDEMOSYNE, Reichenhach. 



AIDEMOSYNE MODESTA, Gould. 

 Plain-coloured Finch. 

 Gould, Sandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 255, p. 414. 



This Finch is an inhabitant of Queensland and the northern 

 portions of New South Wales. Living well in confinement, 

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