Genus— TAVISTOCK A. 
Tavistocka Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., pt. 5, 
p. 434, July 10th, 1919. Type (by monotypy) Lozia guttata Shaw. 
(?) Stagonopleura Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., pi. 
Lxxv., 1850. Indeterminable. 
Stagonopleura “ Reichenbach ” Cabanis, Mus. Heine., 
Vol. I., p. 172, (after Oct. 23rd) 1851. Type (by 
original designation) . Lozia guttata Shaw. 
Not—■ 
Steganopleura (sic.) Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av.. Vol. I., p. 456, 1850. 
Small Finches with short, stout, conical bills, medium wings, short square tail 
and smaU legs and feet. 
The bill is short and stout, a little more than half the length of the head, 
triangular in shape, no culmen ridge, tip sharp, the lateral edges of the 
mandible smuate, culmen rounded, flattened basaUy where nostrils appear as 
minute circular apertures almost entirely hidden by feathers, the culmen rounded 
between them ; the depth of the upper mandible at the base is more than 
half its width and about half the length; the lower mandible nearly as stout 
but overhung all round by the upper; shallow, broad, feathered interramal 
space, gonys ascending but scarcely angulate; no na,sal or rictal bristles 
apparent. 
The whig has a minute flrst primary, the next tliree subequal and longest, 
secondaries long but shorter than shortest primary. 
The tail is short and square, aU feathers broad, upper tail-coverts reaching 
more than half the length of the tail, lower a little longer. 
The legs are short, scutellate in front, bilaminate behind; the toes medium, 
the anterior middle toe very long, longer ■without the claw than the iimer 
with claw, which is subequal with the outer; all claws short and curved; hind- 
toe a little stouter and claw a little larger, but liuid-toe and claw shorter than 
middle toe and claw. 
Coloration, grej'' above, scarlet rump and upper tail-coverts, dark tail; 
white below with broad black chest baud and flank feathers black with 
white spots. 
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