Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 718. 
Family PLOGEIDJE. 
POEPHILA ACUTICAUDA. 
LONG-TAILED FINCH. 
(Plate 572.) 
Amadina ACUTICAUDA Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lend.) 1839, p. 143, March 1840 : North¬ 
west Australia=Derby. 
Amadina acuticauda Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Loud.) 1839, p. 143, 1840. 
Poephila acuticauda Gould, Birds Austr., pt. vi. (Vol. III., pi. 90), March 1st, 1842; id., 
Handb. Birds Austi’., Vol. I., p. 422, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 187, 1878 ; id., ib., Ser. 2, Vol. L, p. 1091, 1887 ; id., Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 10, 1888 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIII., p. 375, 1890 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 51, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 493, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. II., p. 55, 1902 (N.W.A.); Le Souef, ib., p. 149, 1903 
(N.T.); Kilgour, ib., Vol. IV., p. 37, 1904 (N.W.A.); Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 103, 1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 293, 1909 ; 
Mathews, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 64, 1909 (N.W.A.); Hill, ib., Vol. X., p. 289, 1911 
(N.W.A.) ; id., ib., Vol. XII., p. 260, 1913 (N.T.); Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 49, 
1914 (N.T.). 
Poephila hecki Heinroth, Omith. Monastb., Vol. VIII., p. 22, Feb. (reed. B.M., 
Feb. 13th), 1900 : Loc. unlaiown=Port Darwin, Northern Territory; North, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. XXX., p. 101, 1905; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 103, 1908; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 294, 
1909; MacgiUivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 182, 1914 (N.Q.); H. L. White, ib., 
Vol. XVI., p. 229, 1917 (N.T.). 
Poephila aurantiirostris North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. XXVII., p. 208, Oct. 17th, 
1902 ; Wyndham (error) and Port Darwin, Northern Territory (type locality). 
Poephila acuticauda acuticauda Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 432, 1912 ; id.. List 
Birds Austr., p. 303, 1913; id.. South Austr. Orn., Vol. III., p. 228, 1918. 
Poephila acuticauda hecki Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 432, 1912; id.. List 
Birds Austr., p. 303, 1913. 
Poephila acuticauda nea Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 132, Jan. 28th. 
1915 r Glencoe, Northern Territory. 
Distkibution. North-west Australia, Northern Territory. 
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