Order PASSERIF0R3IES. Family PLOCEIDM. 
No. 707. 
ZON.EGINTHUS OOULATUS. 
RED-EARED FINCH. 
(Plate 562.) 
Fringilla octtlata Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. de TAstroL, Zool., Vol. I., p. 211, (pref. 
June 29th) 1830 : King George Sound, South-west Australia. 
Fringilla ocidata Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. de TAstrol., ZooL, Vol. I., p. 211, 1830, 
Estrelda oculea Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xvm. (Vol. III., pi. 79), March 1st, 1845: error 
for “ oculata” Q. et G. ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. IL, p. 186, 1878 ; 
id,, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 10, 1888, 
S'porothlastes ocvlea Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 455, 1850. 
ZoTKEginihus ocvlms Cabanis, Mus. Heine., Vol. I., p. 171, note, 1851 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 407, 1865. 
Ainudina oculea Gray, Handl. Gen. Species Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. II., p. 57, 1870. 
Zonceginthus oculatus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIII., p. 294, 1890 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 49, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 480, 
1901; Milligan, Emu, Vol. II., p. 74, 1902 (W.A.); Carter, t6., Vol. III., p. 40, 1903 
(W.A.); Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 101, 1908; id,, Nov. Zool., Vol. 
XVIII., p. 427, 1912; id., List Birds Austr., p. 298, 1913; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. IV., p. 437, 1914; Alexander, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 33, 1916 ; 
S. A. Wliite, ib., Vol. XX., p. 129, 1921. 
Zonceginthus octdatics gaimardi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., pts. 2-3, p. 40, 
Feb. 21st, 1923 ; Perth, West Australia. 
Zonceginthus oculatus oculatus Mathews, ib, 
Listbibution, South-west Australia only. 
Aduit male. Top of the head, back, scapulars and upper wing-coverts greenish-olive, 
closely barred with black, the barring becoming closer towards the head ; rump 
and upper tail-coverts bright crimson ; middle tail-feathers greyish-olive, margined 
on the outer webs with dull crimson and baired with nairow lines of black; remamder 
of tail-feathers lighter olive, more widely barred with blackish-browix ; a very narrow 
margin at the base of the cuhnen and the lores black; behind the eye a patch of 
crimson feathers ; chin, throat and upper-breast closely barred with black and 
yellowish-olive ; remamder of under-parts including tlie mider tail-coverts black, 
each feather barred with white and with a wMte spot at the extremity; under¬ 
surface of quills greyish-brown. Eyes deep brown, orbits bluish, feet pale horn, 
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