826 
PASSERTD^E. 
Emblema picta Gould. Painted Finch. 
Distr .— Central Australia to Mid- and North-West Australia. 
Emblema picta picta Gould. (13-295.) 
Emblema picta Gould, Birds Austr. pt. vii. June 1st, 1842 : Depuch’s 
Island, Mid-West Australia. (Fig. Gould, iii. pi. 97.) 
Emblema picta coongant Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 428, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Coongan River, Mid-West Australia. (Fig. Math. xii. pi. 563.) 
Distr .— Mid-West Australia. 
Emblema picta territori Math. 
Emblema picta territori Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 428, Jan. 31st, 
1912 : Alexandra, Northern Territory. (Fig. Math. xii. pi. 563.) 
Emblema picta clelandi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. ii. p. 102, Sept. 24th, 
1914: Roebuck Bay, North-West Australia. 
Distr. —North-West Australia, Northern Territory, and Queensland. 
Emblema picta ethelae Math. 
Efnblema picta ethelae Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. ii. p. 103, 
Sept. 24th, 1914 : MacDonnell Ranges, Central Australia. 
Distr. —Central Australia. 
Genus STEGANOPLEURA Bp. 
Steganopleura Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. vol. i. p. 456, 1850 (before 
Feb. 1851). Type (by subsequent designation, Mathews, Birds 
Australia, vol. vii. p. 434, July 10th, 1919): Fringilla bichenovii 
V. & H. 
Sticloptera Reiehenbach, Singvogel, pp. iii, 31, 1862 (after July). Type (by 
monotvpv) : E. bichenovii V. & H. (not Gwen6e, Spec. Gen. Lepid. vol. vii. 
p. 52, ‘1852). 
Stizoptera Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. July 2nd, 1899, p. 215: 
new name for Stictoptera Reiehenbach. 
Bichenoa Moulton, Ibis. Oct. 1923, p. 728. Type (by original designation) : 
F. bichenovii V. & H, 
Steganopleura bichenovii (V. & II.). Double-bearded Finch. 
Distr .— Northern Australia to New South Wales. 
Steganopleura bichenovii bichenovii (V. & H.). (13-313.) 
Fringilla bichenovii Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Bond. vol. xv. 
p 258, Feb. 17th, 1827 : Broad Sound, South Queensland. (Fig. 
Gould, iii. pi. 80, and Math. xii. pi. 564.) 
Munia bichenovii palleecens Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 429, Jan. 31st, 
1912 : Bourke, New South Wales. (Fig. Math. xii. pi. 564.) 
Distr .— South Queensland and New South Wales. 
