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LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
ImqMus castanotis wayensie Mathews, ib., p. 428 : East Murchison, West Australia. 
Zomginthus castanotis mungi Mathews, ib. : Mungi, (Interior of) North-west Australia. 
Zomginthui castanotis alexandrcc Mathews, ib. : Alexandra, Northern Territory. 
iowgirthus castanotis roebucki Mathews, Austral Av. Roe., Vol. I., pt. 8, p. 193, March 20th, 1913: Roebuck 
Bay, North-west Australia. 
Tampygia castanotis hartogi Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club., Vol. XL., p. 70, Jan. 30th, 1920: Dirk Hartog 
Island, West Australia. 
Distribution. Australia generally. Not Tasmania. 
CCCCLXV. Genus EMBLEMA. 
Emblema Gould, Birds Austr., pt. vn., June 1st, 1842. Typo (by monotypy): E. picta Gould. 
620. EMBLEMA PICTA. PAINTED FINCH. 
Gould, Vol. III., pi. 97 (pt. vn.), June 1st, 1842. Mathews, pi. 562. 
Emblma picta Gould* Birds Austr., pt. vn., Juno 1st, 1842 : Depuch’s Island, Mid-west Australia. 
Embkmapictaterritorii Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 428, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Alexandra, Northern Territory. 
Emblem picta coongani Mathews, ib. : Coongan River, Mid-west Australia. 
Emblem picta clclandi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 5, p. 102, Sept. 24th, 1914 : Roebuck Bay, North¬ 
west Australia. 
Emblem picta ethclac Mathews, ib., p. 103 : MacDonneU Rangos, Central Australia. 
Distribution. Central Australia, coastal on Mid- and North-west Australia. 
CCCCLXVI. Genus STEGANOPLEURA. 
Ste^anopleura Bonaparte, Cons. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 456, 1850 (before Feb. 1851), as of Reichenbach, who gave 
Stagonopleura. Type (by subsequent designation, Matliours, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., p. 434, July 10th, 
1919): Fringilla bichenovii Vigors and Horsficld. 
Stictoptera Reichenbach, Die Sing. Vogel, pp. iii., 31, (? after July) 1862. Type (by monotypy) : F. bichenovii 
Vigors and Horsfield. 
Not Stictoptera Guen^e, Spec. gen. Lopid., Vol. VII., p. 52, 1852. 
Stiioptera Oberholser, Proe. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1899, p. 215, July 2nd. New name for Stictoptera Reichenbach. 
Type (by original designation) : F. bichenovii Vigors and Horsfield. 
Bichem Moulton, Ibis, 1923, pt. 4, p 782, Oct. 1923. Type (by original designation): F. bichenovii Vigors 
and Horsfield. 
621. STEGANOPLEURA BICHENOVII. BANDED FINCH. 
Gould, Vol. m., pis. 80 and 81 (both part v.), Dec. 1st, 1841. Mathews, pi. 563. 
FrinqiUa bichenovii Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 258, Feb. 17th, 1827 : Broad 
Sound, Queensland. 
Amadina annulosa Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 143, March 1840: North-west Australia=Cobourg 
Peninsula, Northern Territory. 
3/unia bichemvii pallescens Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 429, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Bourke, New South 
Wales. 
Munia bichenovii bandi Mathews, ib . : Alexandra, Northern Territory'. 
Distribution. Northern Tropical Australia, ranging southwards into New South Wales. 
CCCCLXVII. Genus DONACOLA. 
Donacola Gould, Birds Austr., pt. vn. (Vol. III., pi. 94), June 1st, 1842. Type (by monotypy) : Amadina 
castancothoraz Gould. 
Weebongia Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, 12th y r ear, No. 13, col. 295, Feb. 23rd, 1845 (Reprint: M6negaux 
Art. Omith. Lesson, p. 232, 1913). Tyq)e (by monotypy) : W. albiventer = A. castaneotliorax Gould. 
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