Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 714. 
Family PLOGEDIM. 
HETEROMUNIA pectoralis. 
WHITE-BREASTED FINCH (PICTORELLA). 
(Plate 568.) 
Amadina pectoralis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Loud.) 1840, p. 127, July 1841: North- 
west coast of Australia, 
Amadina pectoralis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Loud.) 1840, p. 127, 1841. 
Donacoh pectoralis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. vn. (Vol. III., pi. 95), June 1st, 1842; id., 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 427, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. n., p. 187, 1878 ; id., ib., Ser. 2, Vol. I., 1886, p. 1091, 1887 ; id., ib., Vol. II., 
1887, p. 168; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 10, 1888. 
Munia pectoralis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIII., p. 354, 1890 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 50, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 489, 1901; 
Hall, Emu, Vol. II., p. 57, 1902 (N.W.A.); Smedley, ib., Vol. IV., p. 68, 1904 (Q.); 
Bemey, ib., Vol. VI., p. 41, 1906 (N.Q.); Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 102, 
1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 285, 1909 ; Mathews, Emu, 
Vol. IX., pp. 64-69, 1909 (N.W.A., N.T.); MacgiUiwray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 181, 
1914 (N.Q.); H. L. White, ib., p. 215 (Eggs); Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 49, 1914 
(N.T.). 
Munia pectoralis pectoralis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVHI., p. 430, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Munia pectoralis incerta Mathews, ib. : Alexandra, Northern Territory. 
Heteromunia pectoralis pectoralis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 301, 1913; id.. South 
Austr. Cm., Vol. III., p. 227, 1918. 
Heteromunia pectoralis incerta Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 301, 1913. 
Distribution. North-west Australia, Northern Territory and North Queensland. 
Adult male. Top of the head, neck, mantle, lower back, rump and upper wing-coverts 
drab colour, wmshed all over with light grey; secondaries and their coverts 
browner and with a small spot of w'hite at the extremity; primaries ashy-brown, 
slightly margined on the outer w'eb with buff ; tail brownish-black; feathers at 
the base of the upper mandible bright reddish-pink, this colour extending over 
the eyes and broadening out on the sides of the throat and sides of the neck; lores, 
sides of the face, ear-coverts and entire tlnoat black, glossed with purple and with 
scattered minute wliite spots ; chest blackish, each feather very broadly margined 
with silvery-white; breast and belly light pink; sides of the body darker and 
each feather with a twin spot of white bordered above and below with black; 
under tail-coverts brownish-ash tipped with isabelline; under-surface of wing 
