See text Poephila is an Australian genus of estrildid finches.

The adults have pinkish underparts, buff or brown upperparts, a black tail and lower belly, and white rumps uppertail coverts and undertail coverts.

These are birds of dry open grassland, occurring from the north-west to the eastern coast of Australia.

They glean seed from the ground or seed-heads of grasses, occasionally supplementing their diet with insects.

He assigned the species Poephila acuticauda as the type, a description he had published several years before as Amadina acuticauda, and gave a description for Poephila personata.