Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 713. 
Family PLOGEldE. 
CHLOROMUNIA TRICHROA. 
GREEIS-BACKED FINCH. 
(Plate 567.) 
[Fringilla TRICHROA Kittlitz, Mem. pres I’Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Vol. II., p. 8., 
pi. X., 1833 : “ Ualan,” Caroline Group. Extra-limital.] 
Erythrura trichroa macgillivrayi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., pt. 5, p. 103, 
Sept. 24th, 1914; Claudie River, North Queensland; error=Lloyd Island. 
Erythrura trichroa macgillivrayi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., p. 103, 1914; 
Kershaw, Emu, Vol. XVIII., p. 1, pi. 1, 1918. 
Erythrura trichroa Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XVII., pp. 73-208, 1918 (N.Q.). 
Distribution. North Queensland, Lloyd Island district. 
Adult male. Lores, fore-head to behind the eyes, cheeks and ear-coverts cobalt-blue, 
tinged with mauve ; back of the head, neck, mantle, lower back, wing-coverts 
and innermost scapulaxs rich dark grass-green ; primaries and outermost secondaries 
brownish-black, bordered on the outer web with grass-green; rump and upper 
tail-coverts dull caimine ; tail feathers olive-browm, the central margined on both 
webs with dull carmine ; under-surface of the body unifonn hght grass-green; 
tliighs golden-olive; under-surface of wing dark brownish-ash, margined on tie 
inner web with bright bufE. Total length 130 mm. ; culmen 10, wing 63, tail 41, 
tarsus 20. Figured. Collected on Lloyd Island, North Queensland, in Februar)’, 
1914, and is the type of Erythrura trichroa macgillivrayi. 
Adult male. Feathers of the fore-head, lores, over the eye and cheeks cobalt-blue washed 
with mauve ; ba,ck of the head, neck, mantle, wing-coverts and innennost secondaries 
rich grass-green ; primaries and outermost secondaries brownish-black, margined 
on the outer web with grass-green; sides of the neck shghtly tinged with gold; 
imder-parts paler; tliighs brownish-buff; under tail-coverts greenish-olive; 
’ under-surface of wings dark ash, broadly margined on the iiuier web with rich 
buff. Eyes brown, feet very pale brown, bill black. Total length 109 mm.; 
culmen 10, wing 61, tail 41, tarsus 18. Figured. Collected at Kuranda, near 
Cairns, North Queensland, on the 3rd of April, 1913. 
Dr. Macgilliveay and W. McLennan discovered this fine Finch and I 
named it 
Erythrura trichroa macgillivrayi 
writing “Differs from E. trichroa cyaneifrons Layard {Ibis, 1878, p. 260: 
Lifu, Loyalty Islands) in its larger bill, deeper blue coloration on the fore-head 
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