Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family PLOCEIDM. 
No. 711. 
DONACOLA CASTANEOTHORAX. 
CHESTNUT-BREASTED FINCH. 
(Plate 565.) 
Amadina CASTANEOTHORAX Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. n., pi. 21, April 1st, 1837: 
“ Australia ”= New South Wales. 
Amadina castaneothorax Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. n., 1837. 
Donacola* castaneothorax^ Gould. Birds Austr., pt. vn. (Vol. IIT., pi. 94), June 1st., 1812; 
id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 426, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.8.W , 
Vol. II., p. 187, 1878; Sharpe, Rep. Zool., Coll.Voy. Alert, p. 21, 1884; Ramsay, 
Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 10, 1888. 
Weebongia albiventer Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, 12th year. No. 13, Feb. 23rd, 1845, 
col. 295 : “ Nouvelle Hollande ”=New South Wales ; Menegaux, Reprint Articles 
d’Ornith. Lesson, p. 232, 1913. 
Donacola hivittata Reichenbach, Die Sing. Vogel, p. 28, 1862=New South Wales. 
Munia castaneithorax Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIII., p. 340, 1890; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 50, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. L, p. 487. 
1901 ; Webb, Emu, Vol. II., p. 29, 1902 (N.Q.); Hall, ib., p. 57 (N.W.A.); Barnard, 
ib., Vol. III., p. 233, 1904 (N.Q.); Smedley, ib., Vol. IV., p. 68, 1904 (Q.); Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 102, 1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., 
p. 281, 1909 ; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 237, 1910 (N.Q.); HiU, ib., p. 289,1911 
(N.W.A.); Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 29, 1911 (N.Q.); MacgilUvray, ib., Vol. XIII., 
p. 181, 1914 (N.Q.); Cornwall, ib., Vol. XV., pi. xun., p. 257, 1916; Campbell 
and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 35, 1917 (N.Q.) ; MacgilUvray, ib., p. 207, 1918 
(N.Q.); S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 226, 1920 (Q.). 
Munia castaneothorax assimilis Mathews, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club., Vol. XXVIL, p. 28, 
Dec. 1st, 1910 : Eureka, Northern Territory ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 429, 
1912. 
Munia castaneothorax castaneothorax Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIIL, p. 429, 1912. 
Munia castaneothorax gangi Mathews, ib., p. 430, Jan. 31st, 1912: Napier Broome Bay. 
North-west AustraUa. 
Munia castaneothoraxs apleyi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol I., pt. 2, p. 52. April 2nd, 
1912 : Melville Island. 
* Also spelt Donacicola. f Also spelt castaneithorax. 
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