Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 706. 
Family PLOQEIDM. 
ZON^GINTHUS BELLUS. 
FIRE-TAILED FINCH. 
(Plate 561.) 
Loxia BELLA Latham, Index Ornith. Supjpl., j). xlvi., (after May 30th) 1801: New South 
Wales. 
Loxia bella Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xlvi., 1801. 
Loxia nitida Latham, ib., p. XLvn. : New South Wales. 
Black-lined Grosbeak Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 198, 1801. 
Nitid Grosbeak Latham, ib., pi. cxxxi. 
Fringilla bella Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Liim. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 257, 1827. 
Estrelda* bella Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xvm. (Vol. III., pi. 78), March 1st, 1845; Eamsay, 
Proc. Liim. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 186, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 10, 
1888. 
Amadina nitida Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. II., p. 370, 1847, 
Sporothlastes nitida Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 455, 1850. 
Amadina bella, id., ib. 
Zonasginihus nitidus Cabanis, Mus. Heine., Vol. I., p. 171, 1851. 
Zonceginthus bellus Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 406, 1865; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. XIII., p. 293, 1890; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 49, 1899; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 479, 1901; Littler, Emu, 
Vol. IL, p. 170, 1903 (Tas.); id., Vol. III., p. 216, 1904 (Tas.) ; Eletcher, ib., Vol. IV., 
p. 16 (Tas.); McClymont, ib., p. 176, 1905 (Tas.); A. G. Campbell, ib., Vol. V., 
p. 144, 1906 (Kangaroo I.); Dove, ib., Vol. VI., p. 19, 1906 (Tas.); Mellor, t6., 
pp. 163-166, 1907 (Tas.); Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 101, 1908; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 271, 1909; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., 
p. 74, 1910 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 427, 1912 ; Mellor and White, 
Emu, Vol. XII., p. 163, 1913 (Fhnders I.); Cheney, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 212, 1915 
(Vic.); Fletcher, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 100, 1918 (Tas.). 
Zonoeginthus bellus samudi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. L, pt. 4, p. 102, Sept. 18th, 
1912 ; Kangaroo Island; id., List Birds Austr., p. 297, 1913, 
Zonceginlhus bdlus bdlus MatheAvs, ib. ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 361, 1914. 
Zonoeginthus samudi S, A. White, Emu-, Vol. XII., p. 267, 1913. 
* Also spelt Estrilda. 
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