This I regret to say is all that is known respecting it. In addition to the differences pointed out by Mr. Gilbert, I may mention that it may also be distinguished from the _P. personata_ by its white ear-coverts and by the black of the throat being bounded below and the black marks on the flanks anteriorly with white; the colouring of the upper surface is also a somewhat richer brown. I possess both sexes of this species, and, as is the case with the other members of the genus, they differ but little from each other. Band crossing the forehead, lores, throat, and a large patch on each flank deep velvety black; ear-coverts, a narrow line beneath the black of the throat, and a space surrounding the black patch on the flanks white; crown of the head deep reddish chestnut; all the upper surface and wings dark cinnamon-brown; chest and abdomen pale vinous brown; upper and under tail-coverts white, the former margined externally with deep black; tail black; irides dark brown; feet red; bill yellowish horn-colour. The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size. [Illustration: POËPHILA CINCTA: _Gould_. _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del^t._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] POËPHILA CINCTA, _Gould_. Banded Grass Finch. _Amadina cincta_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part IV. p. 105. This species is tolerably abundant on the Liverpool Plains, and the open country to the northward towards the interior. It occurs so rarely on the sea side of the ranges, that I only once met with it during my sojourn in New South Wales. It is doubtless a native of the great basin of the interior, where, like the _P. acuticauda_ and _P. personata_, it frequents those parts of the open plains which abound in grasses, upon the seeds of which and other plants it mostly subsists. The range of this species is entirely unknown; I have never seen a specimen except from the localities above mentioned. Crown of the head and back of the neck grey; ear-coverts and sides of the neck silvery grey; throat and lores black; back, chest and abdomen chestnut-brown; wings the same, but darker; lower part of the body surrounded by a black band; tail-coverts white; tail black; bill black; irides reddish brown; eyelash blackish brown; feet pink-red. The female differs from her mate by all her markings being much more obscurely defined. The figure is that of a male of the natural size. [Illustration: DONACOLA CASTANEOTHORAX: _Gould_. _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del^t._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] DONACOLA CASTANEOTHORAX, _Gould_. Chestnut-breasted Finch. _Amadina castaneothorax_, Gould in Syn. Birds of Australia, Part II.