Order PASSERIFORMES, 
No. 712. 
Family PLOCEIDM, 
DONACOLA FLAVIPRYMNA. 
YELLOW-RUMPED FINCH. 
(Plates 566-566.) 
Donacola FLAvrPRyiTNA Gould, Proc, Zool. Soc, (Lond.) 1845, p. 80, October : North 
coast of Australia=Victoria River, Northern Territory. 
Donacola flaviprymna Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845, p. 80; id.. Birds Austr., 
pt. xxni. (Vol. III., pi. 96), June Ist, 1846. 
Atnadina flaviprymna Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. II., p. 370, 1847. 
Dermaphrys flaviprymmis Cabinis, Mus. Heine., Vol. I., p. 174, note, 1857. 
Munia flaviprymna Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 428, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 187, 1878 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 10, 1888 ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIII., p. 345, 1890 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 50, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 488, 1901 ; North, 
Proc. Liim. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. XXIX., p. 130, 1904; Le Souef, Emu, Vol. IV., 
p. 20, 1904; ^lathews, ih., Vol. IX., p. 63, 1909 (N.W.A.); id, Nov. Zool., 
Vol. XVllL, p. 430, 1912; H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 230, 1917 (N.T.). 
Munia xantkoprymna Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 102, Jan. Ist, 1908 ; substitute 
name for flaviprymna Gtould; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 284, 
1909. 
Lonchura flaviprymna Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 300, 1913. 
Distribution. Adjoining parts of North-west Australia and Northern Territory. 
Adult female. Top of the head, neck, sides of face, soiled while with dusky centres ; mantle 
light chestnut, shading into duller chestnut on the lower back and rump; upper 
tail-coverts golden strawy-colour; tail dull reddish-chestnut, the central pair 
margined on both webs with golden straw-colour and the remainder of the tfdl 
margined on the outer webs with yellow ; tlnoat and sides of the neck white tinged 
with yellow; chest and sides of the body wliitc strongly tinged with browynish- 
buff ; thighs brown mixed with black; under tail-coverts black with white shaft- 
streaks ; under-surface of wings and tail brownish-ash, the former broadly margined 
on the imier web wyith yellowish-buff. Eyes blackish-lbrowyn, feet and tarsus leaden- 
blue, bill blue-grey. Total length 113 mm. ; culmen 11, wing 56, tail 34, tarsus 17. 
Figured. Collected on Parry's Creek, North-w'est Australia, on the 11th of Fobioiary,. 
1909. (pi. 565.) 
Adult male. Similar to the adult female. 
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