Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 717. 
Family PLOGEIDM. 
BATHILDA RUFICAUDA. 
RED-FACED FINCH. 
(Plate 571.) 
Amadina RUFICAUDA Gould, Sjnops. Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. (10), Jan. 1st, 1837: New 
Soutli Wales. 
Amadina ruficauda Gould, S 3 mops. Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. (10), 1837. 
Estrelda ruficauda Gould, Birds Austr., pt. vii. (Vol. III., pi. 84), June 1st, 1842; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 186, 1878 ; id., ib., Ser. I., Vol. I., p. 1090, 
1887 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 10, 1888. 
Steganopleura ruficauda Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 457, 1850. 
Bathilda ruficauda Reiclienbacli, Die Sing. Vogel, p. 20, 1862 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr,, 
Vol. I., p. 412, 1865: Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIII., p. 374, 1890; 
Hall, Key’^ Birds Austr., p. 51, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. I., p. 492, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. II., p. 54, 1902 (N.W.A.); Mathews, HancU. 
Birds Austral., p. 102, 1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 291, 
1909 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 188, 1909 (W.A.) ; Mathews, ib., Vol. IX., 
p. 64, 1909 (N.W.A.); Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 49, 1914 (N.T.); MacgHliway, 
ib., Vol. XVIL, p. 207, 1918 (N.Q.). 
Bathilda ruficauda clarescens Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. VI., p. 427, Dec. 9th, 1899: Cape 
York, Queensland ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 113, 1906 ; Mathews, List 
Birds Austr., p. 302, 1913. 
Bathilda clarescens Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, p. 102, 1908. 
JEgiviha ruficauda ruficauda Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 431, Jan. 3l8t, 1912. 
jrEgintha ruficauda connectens Mathews, ib. : Rockliampton, Queensland. 
^Egintha ruficauda suhclarescens Mathew'S, ib. : Parry’s Creek, North-west Australia. 
^Egmtha ruficauda thorpei Mathews, ib. : Coongan River, West Australia. 
.Egintha ruficauda clarescens Mathews, ib. 
Bathilda ruficauda ruficauda Mathews, list Birds Austr., p. 302, 1913. 
Bathilda ruficauda connectens Mathews, ib. 
Bathilda ruficauda suhclarescens IMathews, ib. ; id.. South Austr. Orn., Vol. III., p. 227, 
1918. 
Bathilda ruficauda thorpei Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Northern Australia as far south as New South Wales on east, and 
Coongan River on west. 
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