Order PA8SEBIF0RMES. Family PLOGFABM. 
No. 720. 
ALISTERANUS CINCTUS. 
BLACK-THRO AT ED FINCH. 
(PI.ATE 574.) 
Amadina cincta Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Loud.) 1836, p. 105, Feb. 20th, 1837: New 
South Wales. 
Amadina cincta Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Loud.) 1836, p. 105, Feb. 20th, 1837; id., 
Synops. Birds Austr., pt. n., pi. 21, April 1st, 1837. 
Poephila cincta Gould, Birds Austr., pt. vi. (Vol. III., pi. 93), March 1st, 1842 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 425, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Idnu. 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. 376, 1890; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 51, 1899; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 494, 1901; Smedley, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 69, 
1904 (Q.) ; Berney, ib., Vol. VI., p. 41, 1906 (Q.); Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 103, 1908; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 295, 1909; 
MacgiBivray, Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 207, 1918 (Q.); Black, ih., p. 228. 
Sporothlastes cincta Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 456, 1850. 
Poephila atropygialis Higgles, Trans. Philos. Soc. Queensl. 1876, p. 11, after Aug. 3rd; 
Normanton, Queensland ; Castelnau and Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., 
p. 382, March 1877 ; id., ih., Vol. II., pp. 111-187, 1878; id., Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 10, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 51, 1899; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Bii'ds, Vol. I., p. 496, 1901; North, Proc. Liim. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. XXIX., p. 130, 1904. 
Poephila nigrotecta Hartert, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. WII., p. mx., July 4th, 1899: 
Cape York, Queensland ; Nov. Zool., Vol. VI., p. 426, 1899 ; Hall, Key Buds Austr., 
2nd ed., p. 113, 1906; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 103, 1908; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. .300, 1909. 
Poephila neylecta North, Rec. Austr. Mus., Vol. V., p. 263, June 16th, 1904: New South 
Wales. 
Alisteranus cinctus cinctus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 433, 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 303, 1913. 
Alisteranus cinctus vinotinctus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 433, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
Inkerman, Queensland ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 303, 1913. 
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