Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 708. 
Family PLOCEIDM. 
T^NTQPYGIA CASTANOTIS. 
CHESTNUT-EARED FINCH. 
(Plate 562.) 
Amadina CASTANOTIS Goulcl, Syiiops. Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. 10, Jan. 1st, 1837 : Interior 
of New South Wales. 
Armdi'm castunotis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. i., Jan. 1837 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.) 1836, p. 105, Feb. 20th, 1837; id.. Birds Austr., pt. xm. (Vol. III., 
pi. 87), Dec. 1st, 1843. 
Sporothlustes castamtis Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 455, 1850. 
Siagonopleura castanoiis Cabanis, Mus. Heine., Vol. I., p. 172, 1851. 
Tceniopygia casimwiis Reichenbach. Die Sing. Vogel, p. 26, 1862 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Aust., Vol. I., p. 419, 1866 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIII., p. 311, 1890 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 50, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 483, 1901 ; Lyons, Emu, Vol. I., p. 136, 1902 (Central A.) ; Hall, ib., Vol. II., 
p. 55, 1902 (N.W.A.): Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 94, 1903 (M.W.A.); Kilgour, ib., 
Vol. IV., pp. 37-40, 1904 (N.W.A.); Smedley, ib., p. 68 (Q.); Bemey, ib., Vol. VT., 
p. 41, 1906 (Q.) ; Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 10, 1907 (Vic.); Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austr., p. 101, 1908: North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 275, 1909 ; 
Wliitlock, Emu, Vol. VJJ}., p. 188, 1909 (W.A.); Gibson, ib., Vol. IX., p. 76, 1909 
(W.A.); CVossman. ib., p. 90 (W.A.); Whitlock, ib., pp. 183-212, 1910 (W.A.) i 
Crossman, ib., Vol. X., p. 113, 1910 (N.W.A.); Stone, ib., Vol. XII., p. 117, 1912 
(Vic.); Mellor, ib.. p. 187, 1913 (S.A.); Macgillivxay, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 181, 1914 
(N.Q.); Barnard, ib., p, 209 (N.T.); id., ib., Vol. XIV., p. 49, 1914 (N.T.); 
Jackson, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 169, 1919 (N.S.W.) ; S. A. White, ib., p. 198 (S.A.); 
Whitlock, ib., p. 248 (W.A.); Kersey, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 62, 1919 (Q.). 
Estrilda castamtis Ramsay, Proc. laim. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 187, 1878; id.. Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 10, 1888. 
Zonceginthus castamtis castamtis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 427, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Zonceginthus castamtis mould Mathews, ib. : Rockliampton, Queensland. 
Zonceginthus castamtis wayemis Mathews, ib., p. 428 : East Murchison, West Australia. 
Zonmgirdhvs castamtis mungi Mathews, ib : Mungi, North-west Australia ; id.. Austral 
Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 63, 1912 (Eggs). 
Zonceginthus castamtis alexandrce Mathews, ib. : Alexandra, Northern Territory. 
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