Order PASSERIFORMES 
No. 705. 
Family PLOCEIDM. 
TAVISTOCKA GUTTATA. 
SPOTTED-SIDED FINCH. 
(Plate 561.) 
Loxia guttata Shaw, Mus. Lever., pt. n. (6), p. 47, pi. 24 (dated Feb. 1st) 1796; New 
South Wales (Sydney). 
Loxia guttata Shaw, Mus. Lever., pt. n. (6), p. 47, pi. 24, 1796. 
Fringilla leucocepJiala Latham, Index Omith. SuppL, p. XLvm., (after May 30th) 1801; 
New South Wales (Sydney). 
White-headed Finch Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, SuppL II., p. 210, 1801. 
Fringilla lathami Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Lhm. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 256, Feb. 17th, 
1827 : New South Wales (Sydney^ 
AmadLia lathami Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xm. (Vol. IIL, pi. 86), Dec. 1st, 1843. 
Amadina guttata Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. II., p. 370, 1846. 
Sporothlastes guttata Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 455, 1850. 
Stagonopleura guttata Cabanis, Mus. Heine., Vol. I., p. 172, 1851; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 417, 1865; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol, XIII., p. 292,1890; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 49, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I, 
p. 478, 1901 ; Smedley, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 68, 1904 (Q.); Batey, «&., Vol. VQ., 
p. 10, 1907 (Vic.); Hill, p. 20 (Vic.); Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 101, 
1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, VoL II., p. 268, 1909; S. A. White, 
Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 129, 1914 (S.A.); id., ib., Vol. XIV., p. 144, 1915 (MaUacoota); 
Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 35, 1917 (N.Q.); Cleland, ib,, 
Vol. XVIII., p. 283, 1919 (N.S.W.); Le Souef and Macpherson, ib., Vol. XX., 
p. 91, 1920 (N.S.W.); Norton, ib., p. 228, 1921 (N.S.W.). 
Estrilda guttata Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 186, 1878; id., Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 10, 1888. 
Zonceginthus guttatus guttatus Mathews, Nov. ZooL, Vol. XVIII., p. 427, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Zonoeginthus guttatus philordi Mathe\v3, ib. ; Frankston, Victoria. 
Stagono'pleura guttata guttata Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 297, 1913. 
Stagonopleura gtUtata philordi Mathews, ib. ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 359, 1914. 
Tavistocka guttata giittata Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. VTI., pt. 5, p. 434, 1919. 
Tavistocka gxdtata philordi Mathews, ib. 
Tavistocka guttata Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. 
