FIRE-TAILED FINCH 361 
FIRE-TAILED FINCH 
Zonceginthus bellus hellus 
In July, 1893, 1 obtained at Airey's Inlet a single bird 
of this species, which was set up hy Mr. Mulder and 
is now in the Geelong Museum. I never saw it in 
the district before or since. Probably the individual 
referred to came from the Otway Forest, where in 
the denser parts it might still be possible to find the 
species breeding. It is a plain-coloured bird, upper 
surface brown and under grey, but beautifully pencilled 
all over with tiny narrow black lines. At the base 
of the tail is a bright patch of scarlet. I would 
remind young bird-students that though this is the 
bird which scientists call Firetailed Finch, the bird 
commonly called Firetail is the Red-browed Finch. 
RED-BROWED FINCH 
Mgintha temporalis tregellasi 
This is the species widely known as " Firetail " or 
" Red-head." It is of a greenish-brown colour above, 
greyish below, and its conspicuous marks are a crimson 
patch over the eye and another at the base of the 
tail ; by these, and the absence of a white ring round 
the eye, it may be known in the field from the White- 
eye, with which, in my experience, one is rather apt 
at first to confuse it, as the two birds have much 
the same sort of flight and note, and move about 
