DONACOLA PECTORALIS, Gould. 
White-breasted Finch. 
Amadina pectoralis, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part VIII. p. 127. 
For two beautiful specimens of this entirely new Finch I am indebted to E. Dring, Esq., of the Beagle, 
who procured them on the north-west coast of Australia : no notes of their habits or economy having been 
forwarded with the specimens, I am unable to give any particulars respecting them. 
In structure and in the general disposition of its markings, the White-breasted Finch offers a considerable 
resemblance to the Donacola castaneothorax of the eastern coast, and in all probability they are analogues of 
each other, in accordance with a law which appears very generally to prevail among the birds of Australia ; 
each great division of this vast country having its own peculiar species. 
Crown of the head, all the upper surface and wings delicate greyish brown ; the tips of the wing-coverts 
very minutely spotted with white ; tail blackish brown ; throat and ear-coverts glossy blackish purple ; chest 
crossed by a band of feathers, black at the base, largely tipped with white ; abdomen and under tail-coverts 
vinous grey ; flanks ornamented with a few feathers similar to those crossing the breast ; hill bluish horn- 
colour ; feet flesh-colour. 
The figures in the Plate are of the natural size, and are supposed to represent the two sexes ; the principal 
figure the male. 
