• Aidemosyne Reichenbach, H.G.L. 1862. Die Singvögel. (in 3 parts). Dresden Vol. 1. [dated as published in 1862-1863, but appearing in Pts VI-VIII of the Central Atlas of Reichenbach's Vollständigste Naturgeschichte des In- und Aus-landes, and thus before Pts IX and X in 1862] [14] [dated as published in 1862-1863, but appearing in Pts VI-VIII of the Central Atlas of Reichenbach's Vollständigste Naturgeschichte des In- und Aus-landes, and so before Pts IX and X in 1862].

  Type species:

   Amadina modesta Gould, 1837 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal

History of changes

• Amadina modesta Gould, J. 1837. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Dec. 13, 1836. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1836: 139-140 [published June 1837, publication dated 1836] [pl. 10].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 14610 ♂, New South Wales.
• Aidemosyne modesta nogoa Mathews, G.M. 1915. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2: 123-133 [Date published 129] [132].

Generic Combinations

• Neochmia modesta (Gould, 1837). —
  Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. [754]
• Aidemosyne modesta (Gould, 1837). —
  Mathews, G.M. 1908. Handlist of the Birds of Australasia. The Emu 7(supplement): 1-108 [102]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt.

Common Name References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Plum-headed Finch)

History of changes